Kind of reminds me of this Onion article from January 2001, just after Bush was elected. It's scary 
how prophetic it is, too damn scary if you ask me...

http://www.theonion.com/onion3701/bush_nightmare.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeff [mailto:jefflist@whitebuddha.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: kclug
> Subject: Re: US IT jobs going overseas creating 'IT Rust Belt'.
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> Joke?  Republican economic policies are a joke if you study 
> history.
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> I need to clarify one thing below.  The "similar economic 
> policies" are Bush's economic policies: laissez faire 
> capitalism, tax breaks for the rich, vast deregulation are 
> all policies that were foisted on the public just prior to 
> the Great Depression.  If things continue we may have 
> another Great Depression.  Some economic indicators of today 
> are very similar to those around the 1930's.
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> Aaron wrote:
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>  >Um...  I must have missed the punch line... This is a 
> joke, right?
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>  >Aaron
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>  >>One more interesting fact:  The Great Depression was 
> preceded by four
>  >>republican presidents who exercised "similar economic 
> policies."  A
>  >>democratic president brought us out.  Now both parties 
> are more similar,
>  >>but still different enough that we would be far far 
> better off if Gore
>  >>was president.
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