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Bush just finished his speech to the Economics Club in New York and he and Fox News and their Business Network are so very proud of how he has reacted to step up and save the economy! Bush noted that we caught the ‘bug’ early by God, yes he did say he was “early” to catch the falling economy and that his stimulus program is guaranteed to work! By putting $600 into “qualified” tax payers mailboxes, we will find the economy is back to working order when everyone spends it. In another quarter we should be back in the black according to Bush! The trouble is, everyone I asked was going to use it to pay bills, (mostly their credit cards because of the cost of gas,) maybe Bush is only going by what his rich friends are telling him they will do with their $600, like buy a bottle of Dom or tip the illegal lawn maintanence people?
Secondly, I guess Bush thinks only “some housing markets are bad”, that’s a quote! So since he has a couple FHA programs that let “certain” home owners refinance, he will save the housing market! Plus he is offering counseling on how to deal with the refinances. And even when a Wall Street journalist at the end of his speech, (only one of two questions allowed, because of how Bush rambles and is so incoherent,) when asked about the record low dollar in comparison to the euro, $4.oo a gallon gas, food and staples being higher and would Bush call this recession, Bush went off on a tangent about how North Carolina factory workers were saved by being re-educated to new jobs when his free market economy shipped the textiles off to 3rd world markets allowing cheap labor, and that is how the loss of textiles job resulted in people being better educated, (we still don’t know if the educated people found work).
Bush was busting at the seams about how he is stubborn, (he admitted to being like bitchy Barbara) and he will stick by his principles. He would not say the recession word, nor did he answer the complete WSJ question, he said he would “dodge the rest of the question.” (Direct quote.)
This idiot of a president is so out of touch that it was like listening to a person off their medication and in full bi-polar mode rambling from one disconnected subject to the next. The only other question he responded to was about overseas trade and then he went off on a 911 “Rudy tangent” about how we are spreading democracy and in essence are saving the world by our Iraq war policies and how we should be able to listen in on terrorists. Half the time he was stuttering over his own speech. He sounded like he was on the ’sauce’ as he mangled words.
Soon as the idiot left the room, I turned on FOX news and they were proud of all Bush has done to stimulate the economy, completely dismissing the fact that Bear Stearns this morning announced they have low liquidity and must take a loan from JP Morgan. Bush is so out of the loop and Fox news is trying their best to save face for their president, and they can have him!
It was another speech where you look at our president and wonder who lets him off the leash? They should send Dana Perrino out to talk for him so a least we can hear her skirt the issues with some intelligence. Oh, forgot that Cheney is going to Israel to try and save the middle east, it’s almost like seeing Nero fiddle as Rome burns. I wish these two fiddlers were out of office already, the bullshit they spread with the phony policies and words just make us more volatile. How low can we go we all wonder–how low can bush/dick sink us….
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March 14, 2008 at 6:43 pm
The Nero analogy was exactly what popped into my head when I read this. That and Marie Antoinette offering the peasants cake (yeah I know that story isn’t true but whatever).
This is ugly.
March 14, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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