A rather impressive statistic NOYB, but you miss 3 very important facts.

#1) An article published December 4, 1998 being used as fact for what
happened in 1999 and 2000

#2) Boeing announced Dec. 1 that it will shed 48,000 jobs throughout the
company in 1999 and 2000, largely because the economic crisis in Asia is
battering Boeing's customers.

Largely because of the economic crisis in Asia.

#3) And this is the biggest clue

If Boeing follows through on its plan, the company will eliminate about 20
percent of the 238,000 workers that it had on its payroll in June. The
company did not say how many jobs would be lost in Washington state.

If is a very strong word... It says that it hadn't happened.

Tell you what, if you want yourself to look credible on this, perhaps you
can locate the actual numbers for what did happen rather than relying on the
premonitions you are quoting.

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During Clinton's eight years, some 22 million jobs were added to the
economy.

Fun facts (and don't think I'm slamming Clinton's entire record, because
Bush would've done the same thing, if he could figure out how):

One way Clinton created jobs was by personally lobbying the Saudis to be
sure they made a series of enormous commercial aircraft purchases from
Boeing,

Funny that you mention Boeing, Doug. Boeing cut 48,000 jobs in 1999 and
2000...which were the last 2 years of the Clinton misAdministration.

http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seatt...07/story3.html

In previous years, a cutback of that magnitude would have set off alarms
in
boardrooms, government offices and homes statewide, and for good reason.
Earlier Boeing downturns coincided with statewide recessions in the early
1980s and early 1970s.

But many leading economists don't expect a Boeing-led recession this
time --
not as long as the healthy sectors of the state and national economies
stay
that way.

"If Boeing is the only change, and all other things remain the same, then
I
don't think we'll see a recession here," said Chang Mook Sohn, executive
director of the state Office of the Forecast Council.

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It looks like Chang was wrong about his recession prediction. Signs of a
recession were beginning to peak in late 1999 and 2000. Wall Street was
the
first to notice...but the Democrats *still* can't admit it.