State Of The Union

[Galt]

Twice I had a nice, long reply written out only to get booted. It's too late for me to say everything I wanted to, but I'll just make one quick point for now: If we're going to use quarterly GDP growth as evidence of economic strength, then we may as well learn whatever we can from the policies of that evil commie Jimmy Carter.

1977 Q2: 8.1% GDP growth

1978 Q2: 16.7% GDP growth

Or, maybe we can do better than to google "gdp growth" and post the first result that supports the argument we're trying to make (result #8).

That's fantastic. You are aware that the the presidential election was in 1980, right?

Who cares what was going on in '78?

Yes, it was one of the first few results on Google. That was my point. Doesn't make the information less correct. Are you debating the numbers that I put up? Are you still saying that the economy was in fact strong until Bush took office when it was clear that GDP had slowed dramatically well before the election.