Ah, the good old days. A LTTE from November 24, 1992 in the Akron Beacon Journal:

"Now that Clinton supporters have had their way, let's pause to remember some economic indicators that exist today:

Prime interest rate - 6 percent.

Inflation - under 4 percent.

Mortgage interest rates - 8 percent.

Unemployment - 7.5 percent.

Deficit - $4 trillion.

Maximum income tax rate - 28 percent.

Trade deficit - under $100 million.

The world is at peace; there's no threat of war.

Four years from now, let's compare numbers to see how well their boy does."

is the line about how the world is at peace ...

and yet, they lambasted Clinton for not finishing off Saddam Hussein when he took office?

They were afraid of him being the C-in-C?

Seems to me that that, aside from the WTC attack less than two months into his term (which he never blamed on the previous administration's failings, unlike someone we've seen since 9/10/2001 ...), a few of the "wars" were from the homegrown right-wingers ...

Prime interest rate - 8.25 percent.

Inflation - under 2.9 percent.

Mortgage interest rates - 7.6 percent.

Unemployment - 5.4 percent.

Deficit - $5.2 trillion. (The writer of the letter must have meant national debt and not deficit)

Maximum income tax rate - 39.6 percent.

Trade deficit - under $114.2 billion. (The writer is incorrect here as well. 1992 trad deficit was $84.3 billion and rose 29% from the year before according to the New York Times - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5D6173CF93AA25751C0A965958260

The world is at peace; there's no threat of war.


Now let's look at November 2000.

Prime interest rate - 7.75 percent.

Inflation - under 3.3 percent.

Mortgage interest rates - 9 percent.

Unemployment - 3.9 percent.

Deficit - $5.7 trillion.

Maximum income tax rate - 39.6 percent.

Trade deficit - under $369.7 billion.

The world is at peace; there's no threat of war

was facing, having had 8 years of what he would have thought as "heaven" ...

too bad he didn't include the price of oil ...