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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: BUSH
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.160636.26207@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1992Jul22.032747.7660@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Jul22.142048.371@mag <1992Jul22.181221.5192@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:06:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.181221.5192@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> crussel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Carol A Russell) writes:
- >
- >The recession is easing? Where? Have you heard the latest unemployment
- >figures?
-
- Wherever did you get the idea that what the unemployment rate was
- doing had anything to do with whether the economy was in a recession
- or not? While the two tend to be linked, the unemployment rate
- generally lags. What this means is that unemployment (in a 'normal'
- recession) will continue to get worse even after the upturn, and the
- amelioration of unemployment will trail along behind the improving
- economy.
-
- >I do applaud Bush for extending unemployment benefits....but that's
- >where my applause ends.
-
- Depending on the type of recession, this can be exactly the WRONG
- thing to do (although I don't think that's the case with this one).
- For example, a convincing case can be made that one of the things that
- helped deepen and lengthen the Great Depression were FDR's enactment
- of laws regarding unemployment benefits and collective bargaining and
- such.
-
- >Here in Ohio our economy is not any better than it was
- >four years ago (or 12 years ago when Reagan took the helm) -- it is worse.
-
- This sounds like a 'personal problem' for Ohio. Most of the country
- has been pretty well off for the past 12 years, until this recession.
- So just why are things no better in Ohio than they were 12 years ago?
- What isn't Ohio doing that everygbody else did?
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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