It's official: Bush's economic policies were a complete failure. He even makes Reagan look good. On every measure of the Census Bureau, the vast majority of Americans were worse off when Bush left office than when he came in; the first time net incomes have declined in modern history. The only things to go up were the poverty rate, unemployment, uninsured Americans & everything bad. |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)