{"id":214,"date":"2008-10-20T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T12:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/the-tale-of-two-presidents-and.html"},"modified":"2008-10-20T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T12:45:33","slug":"the-tale-of-two-presidents-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/the-tale-of-two-presidents-and.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Two Presidents and one Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marta Cook over at Faithful Democrats just did a <\/font>great post on the differences between how American families fared during the Clinton and Bush years.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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She based her post on a report by <\/font>Third Way<\/font><\/a> (my favorite of the progressive think tanks).  <\/span>It’s well worth the time to read the entire post (and report, for that matter), but here are a few of the highlights from Marta’s post:<\/font><\/p>\n

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If income growth into the Bush years had kept up with the overall rate of growth during the Clinton years, the average American family would have pocketed $58,945 more from 2000 to 2008.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Between 1992 and 2008, gas prices have nearly tripled in real dollars. Third Way concludes, “The typical household will have spent $5,069 more for gas over the past eight years than it did from 1993 to 2000-or enough to pay nearly one year’s tuition at a public university<\/em>“.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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If the economy had kept up the same rate of growth during the Bush years as it did the Clinton years, America’s economy would be larger, to the tune of $1.017 trillion. In addition, between 2000 and 2006, the number of uninsured Americans increased by 8.56 million.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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To be fair, there are always other factors than the President that affect these things, but imagine how different our world would be if only a few hundred little old ladies in FL had not voted for Buchanan…<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marta Cook over at Faithful Democrats just did a great post on the differences between how American families fared during the Clinton and Bush years.   She based her post on a report by Third Way (my favorite of the progressive think tanks).  It’s well worth the time to read the entire post (and report, for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,1,9],"tags":[244,245,248,153,482,249,246,247],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christians","category-economy","category-election-08","category-religion-in-the-public-square","tag-bush","tag-clinton","tag-college","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-gas","tag-hardship","tag-healthcare"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Tale of Two Presidents and one Economy - Progressive Revival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/10\/the-tale-of-two-presidents-and.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Tale of Two Presidents and one Economy - 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