What ridiculous ignorant tripe Lynn. It is the economy that fueled a stock market rise and not the other way around. The Clinton bubble was the housing bubble of the 2000's. Oregon's economy became smoking hot in the 90's due to property tax relief to foreign corporations offshoring jobs here. As for the quote on welfare, that is a shameless bald face lie you continue to repeat in intellectual bankruptcy no matter how many times that lie is thoroughly debunked. Welfare reform added a ton of new programs to help people attain work, and mandated those who receive welfare look for a mere 5 jobs per week. The only ones denied welfare were the ones who didn't look for work.