"What did Mitt Romney learn from the Bush years?" by Ezra Klein at WP

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What did Mitt Romney learn from the Bush years?

by Ezra Klein at WP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/27/what-did-mitt-romney-learn-from-the-bush-years/

"SNIP..................................

Lower taxes, fewer regulations, more domestic energy production, promises of deficit reduction that are quickly overwhelmed by increased defense spending and reduced tax revenues, and glossy rhetoric about economic freedom pretty much defined the Bush administration’s economic policy. And how did that economic policy work out?

It was a disaster.

This graph is by David Leonhardt of The New York Times. It looks at five-year growth periods since 1955. The two periods that span the Bush years — 2001-2005, and 2006-2010 — come in dead last:

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(Telling graph here: )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/27/what-did-mitt-romney-learn-from-the-bush-years/