Discuss “Bush deserves credit for our strong economy”

The current media cycle, with its unrelenting ?Hate Bush? agenda, has blatantly ignored the substantial economic growth of the past few years. When Bush entered office, he inherited an economy regressing into recession caused by the dot-com collapse and the illogic of investing the ?peacetime? surplus back into government programs. Shortly after taking office, September 11 happened and dealt another fiscal uppercut on the economy.

Recently, after a decent post-9/11 recovery, the economy was dealt another blow. Alan Greenspan, in testimony given to the Joint Economic Committee, remarked, ?The economy suffered significant shocks in late summer and early autumn.? Greenspan is referring to the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, which...