Thursday
Sep062012
Bubba & the housing bubble
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 08:02AM Bill Clinton’s Democratic Convention speech will no doubt be loaded with references to his great economic achievements as president, plus warnings that a vote for Mitt Romney will be a vote to return to the economic disaster of the Bush era.
In other words, Clinton won’t mention a whole bunch of inconvenient facts — about what brought the prosperity of the 1990s, and how he himself helped put America on the path to the 2008 financial crisis.
He’ll tell us that a vote for President Obama will bring back the glory days of the 1990s — but those days weren’t so great until Republicans won control of Congress in the 1994 elections.
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Tap water is the most essential element of our daily life. You need it for cooking, shower, and drinking. You need it even when you make your baby food.
