Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Why do people give Clinton credit for the economic boom of the late nineties?

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diggerfloyd asked:


He and his policies had nothing to do with the runaway economy America experienced in the late nineties.

Many forget that much of the record corporate profits were later erased as accounting scandals rocked Wall Street. And that the emergence of the web was the real driving force behind the upsurge in the economy.

Since Clinton had nothing to do with the development or growth of the web and federal oversight was lax in guarding against the accounting practices of offending corporations, why does Clinton get credit from many for the economic spurt?

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7 Responses to “Why do people give Clinton credit for the economic boom of the late nineties?”

Ted Kennedy aka Swimmer Says:

Because they do not understand economics. It is all a result of private industry, supply and demand, competition, the desire to provide products or services that people want, and the initiative to do the R & D to bring new products to the market.

rasmalai001 Says:

Maybe because America had a stronger moral character then?

We also weren’t hated in the Clinton years, not nearly the way we are hated now.

gimpalomg Says:

They don’t call him “Slick Willie” for nothing.

Have you ever looked at the dot com bubble on any of the exchange graphs. I am no stock analyst but I knew that was a bubble. I was able to escape before it collapsed. Nice to have Bush around to blame so the Liberals could save Clinton again. Recessions are always at least 2 years in the making.

The man rates around Nixon for crooked and around Carter for competence as far as I am concerned. I would love to see what the history writers have to say in about 50 to 75 years.

olliebee410 Says:

You’re right. It seems if an actual donkey were president at the time, the economic boom would’ve forged ahead as scheduled. He was a right place, right time, Prez.

criskringles Says:

Because he was the president during those times?

Let me guess, you want to give all the credits to your Almighty Bush?

frankie Says:

BECAUSE DURING THIS TIME WE WERE NOT “BROKE” DON’T YOU GET IT, does not matter who did what, most people are gonna look at their financial situation based on who was in there during their time of prosperity and who is in there while they were “BROKE”, common hard working people don’t have time to give or take credit for stuff like that, they are too busy trying to make it.

Ivan M Says:

CLINTON WAS A GOOD PRESIDENT

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