How can this graph of the Dow be good for Boosh?

[Jacobin]

I mean, WTF? The Dow has been below where it started when he 'took' office.

Are lower taxes on the rich really making them more wealthy? Wouldn't they prefer a president whose policies grew the economy so they would have more money from the stock market to pay taxes with?

[Warpy]

1. Funny money has kept the Dow above 10,000

and that is all the success he needs. Nobody's making any money in the market, but they're not losing that much, either.

Too many people out there think the great depression was caused by a stock market crash, something that was only the final straw.

[tom_paine]

2. The Imperial Suvbjects of Amerika are simply disconnected from reality

Orwell was absolutely correct.


Absolutely.

[nyhuskyfan]

3. The most important part of that graph...

Is to notice how quick the bounce-back was after 9/11. Then it went down again, before bouncing back to where it was. Compare to the Clinton years. I believe the Dow was around 3800 when he took office, and it was almost 11000 when he left.

This is also the same way they act with their job numbers -- hey we've climbed in the last year, we're almost as high as we were when we took office. Yay us!
That's the Bush economic model -- gut the economy for two years, then talk about how much you've improved since. Yet they criticize the Clinton "bubble", even though the economic slowdown wasn't serious AND even though the economy had grown so remarkably over eight years that a temporary setback or "correction" was hardly a big deal. We had a big surplus, and we could afford plenty of well-targeted stimuli to get things going again.

Not anymore.

[rkc3]

4. What's amazing is the Dow was lower in September '02

than after the attacks of 9-11. Wasn't the downfall of the US economy due to the terra attacks and not his policies?

How many times has bush screwed up and when will America learn?