The booming 90's?

Question

I see a lot of talk on here giving Clinton credit for how good the 90's were. Why is there never any credit given to the Republican congress of then?

Answer 1

The 90's boom was due primarily to the tech bubble, which had nothing to do with politics.

Answer 2

The stock market crash. Gas prices were historically low but that meant that little could be done to develop new fields or to find more oil. The military shrank by more then 50%. Entire industries were destroyed in the west. Middle class campers were banned from the forests so only doctors, lawyers, and other large Democratic donors could be alone (roadless orders, etc) there (no one else could afford the time off to walk in). The Waco massacre (ahh, the meaning of booming?). Wagging the dog. 21 indictments leading to impeachment. Dead cronies with too much information. Hillary using the VA Hospital system as the model for universal lack of care.

If I were a Republican Congressman, I'd certainly not want credit for the "booming" 90s and the bubble that all in the administration knew would burst but allowed the middle class to suffer the consequences.

Answer 3

Clinton worked with the Republican congress and there wasn't any of the animosity that there is with Bush and the Democratic congress.

Answer 4

The boom of the nineties was a brief moment when the economy was not totally based on the production and maintainaince of war. It did not really have a chance of lasting. The war guys don't like being under-utilized; so with a little help from all their overseas agents, they whipped up the corporate jihaist extraveganza we now have.

We had cold war from about 1948 untill 1990... we'll have this **** for about the same length of time, or until, as a species, we have the good sense to round up the military-might-only people, and execute them publicly, all nations, all powers, all corporations.

But I'm certain we lack the will to do so.

Answer 5

The economy didn't really take off until after they raised the minimum wage and that was all Clinton's idea. The republicans were hoping to say: "I told you so" because they were claiming that there was going to be a high percentage of businesses going bankrupt and high unemployment rates because of the minimum wage increase. They were so POed that their conjecture never materialized that they investigated Clinton for everything that they think of in retaliation for him making them look like the incompetents that they are.

Answer 6

For obvious reasons. The ends justifies the means.