When Clinton was in office all we heard was how good the economy is.?

Question

Question why don't the major news media outlets give Bush credit for a great economy. The Clinton News Network never gives Bush credit.

Answer 1

You're right. But think about it for a minute. The simple fact that the Communist News Network, PMS-NBC, etc etc. are all silent tells me that the economy is roaring along. No Dem's have come out on how bad the economy is either. So as the old saying goes, "the silence is deafening". Hope it stays that way. One more Hitlerie rant and I am going to start having seizures!

Answer 2

The big problem with politicians claiming economic magic is that they "interpret" not present fact. The real economic bottom line is in the Congressional Financial Abstract posted every year. It shows real time gov't expenditures, borrowings, revenues, and dispersion of treasury funds. There are other very reliable sources for economic FACTS... GNP, DOW, price indexes, utilities, commodities, import export values.... deficits, national debt...
It would not take a very enterprising media rocket scientist to create a master color graph integrating these economic indicators (facts) to show the public what is really happening to our economy over the years, and show it every morning after the weather??? Nyaaa.... who really cares....no ratings... (and oops, it would have exposed the total fiction of Clinton's "Budget Surplus")

Answer 3

It does not create viewers. There's an endless cycle of people hating Bush because "it's the thing to do" and news medias hating Bush because the viewers do, thus making the news "the thing to watch".

Good news does not create viewers sadly. If they looked at the fact that Bush has the lowest unemployment rate in God knows how long, they'd realise it.

Answer 4

i hate to spring it on you but our economy isn't as great as people think. Bernake is going to have to keep interest rates high so that countries won't sell their U.S dollars and start trading with Euro dollars. Kuwait has just announced that they are going to start trading in Euro dollars rather than U.S petro dollars. There are other countries doing the same. If this trend continues, the value of the dollar is going go into free fall, even more so than it has in recent years under the Bush administration. Why do you think gold has been rising so quickly. If the dollar drops even more, look for gold to sky rocket. You need to start scratching below the surface of economic reports to get at the meat of this economy and it doesn't look good. BTW, the only reason that oil is lower now than 8 months ago is because demand isn't there and OPEC hasn't decreased production.
Don't forget China, the 21st century is going to be the century of Chinese dominance over the world economy. Welcome to the 2nd and third world.

Answer 5

Because the economy isn't great now.

We have a record deficit. Clinton ended with a surplus.

Our stock market is medium.

The economy is GREAT now if you make 1 million or more per year.

Answer 6

because LOOK AT IMPROVEMENT...

this is the key...

look at almost EVERY stat that Bush fans cite and it's just an overall number... hardly EVER any mention of overall improvement since he started...

WHY?

because there has been, relatively, little... for most jobs created, many have been lost...

Bush has for the most part, took a very strong economy and kept it strong... but didn't make it stronger...

in some places it is even weaker... like housing

look at almost any stat from when Clinton started to when he finished... AMAZING GROWTH OVERALL...

same stats for Bush basically show a very overall slow rate of growth... but some slight growth...

examples....

Overall, the stock market is up about 1,000 points from when Bush entered office overall...

it went up almost 8,000 during Clinton's presidency...

that's 8 times as much Improvement

unemployment has actually increased since Bush took office... up about .4 percent or so

while Clinton went from about 7 percent to 4 percent, a three percent improvement in his presdency...

Answer 7

Interesting

In California when Clinton was in office all I heard was lies from Ken Star and Newt Gingrich.

Amazing how the Warbucks media has a different message for each State.

Go big Red Go

Answer 8

1. The economy did MUCH better under Clinton then under Bush as demonstrated by the charts at the link below.
2. The American media have a serious rightwing bias, and anyone who thinks otherwise is clueless.

Answer 9

Clinton wasn't involved in a very unpopular war and Bush is

Answer 10

I agree. The economy recessed towards the end of Clinton's presidency. I thought Bush did a good job of getting it moving again and unemployment to drop. He hasn't got any credit for this.