text: why do the dems insist clinton gave us a good economy? i worked for the rail road during his two terms and i watched two large rail yards in tx (a main hub for the country) go from lines full of cars waiting to unloaded to almost no traffic at all in 5 yrs. because of this almost 6k lobs lost in a two month period, including mine. during that time so many buisnesses went under, but now we have so much money in our pockets from this economy that we can all go but every new device they dangle in front of us any time they do. clinton was horrible he raised taxes( the biggest tax hike in american history), fired more than 1 million people in his fianl 2 years, the economy was going into a recession before bush fixed that, kept all of the hard earned money by the american workers for himself and didnt spend it on anything like border protection the war ( he had 7 chances to kill bin laden and didnt, 9/11 was his fault), bush gave back 1.4 trillion dollars to the american people, lowered taxes gwb rules