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May 4, 2006
On Monday, TheVanguard.Org put out an Action Alert asking people to immediately call their Senators and Congressmen and immediately sign our anti-tax petitions due to the likelihood that votes to extend the Bush tax cuts and repeal the AMT and Death Tax are imminent. In that post, we cited the positive effects of the cuts so far, which add up to our current “phenomenal economic boom”.
We got a note from one or two clearly-benighted liberals in response to this, scoffing at the idea that the economy might not be in the toilet. A representative example went like this:
WHAT PHENOMENAL ECONOMIC BOOM? YOU GUYS ARE RETARDED, WHICH I GUESS THESE DAYS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH REPUBLICAN.
We helped these poor souls out with some proof, and I thought I ought to share it with you too. All of the following links are from the past several days, and just a tiny sample of what’s available, randomly selected off Google more for my convenience and for time’s sake than for anything else. You will note also that there’s only one opinion column in the group (Larry Kudlow’s, down at the bottom), the rest being straight news stories from the Mainstream Media. If you want more opinion (i.e., analysis so you can fully understand these numbers), I suggest you visit TheVanguard.Org and browse through our back newsletters, which more than tell the story.
In any case, without further ado, here’s plenty of past-seven-days proof of our brilliant economic boom in what is surely the best economy which has ever existed in all of human history. Have fun confounding your liberal friends (and bucking up the conservatives too): as usual, the truth is all around us, if we’re just willing to look.
May 4, 2006
U.S. Economy Firing on All Cylinders
May 4, 2006
US Tech Economy Continues Unheralded Boom
May 3, 2006
Fed’s Stern Says US Economy on Solid Track – Report
May 3, 2006
U.S. Economy: Service Industries Expand Faster Than Expected
May 1, 2006
U.S. Economy: Manufacturing Unexpectedly Accelerates
April 28, 2006
Great Growth for U.S. Economy
April 28, 2006
Headwinds Can’t Slow U.S. Economic Growth
Riding the Right Curve
by Larry Kudlow
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