Why the economy in the US is so bad than 6 or 7 years ago? Why Pres. Bush does not care about the economy?
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What you try to mean is this:\n\n Since George Washington (Americas 1st president) up to President Clinton (the one before the former), the United States has been in debt for as much as 1.3 trillion.\n\nOn the other hand, only Bush himself has put the United States into as much debt equalling a total of about 3 trillion. And he's still got a couple of more time in office.\n\nHonestly, this does not concern me at all because I am not a national of this country. Personally, I believe Bush has it's good and it's bad. We have to acknowledge the fact that maybe if it were not for him, perhaps any terrorist would be at the reach of nuclear weapons just as Iran may be able to start a Nuclear war to any nation.\n\nI certainly believe that he might be being too agressive and that handling so many issues such as: Chinas economy, unhappy Immigrants in the US, A ridiculous costly wall being built on its borders, Iraqi War, Osama Bin Laden's reappearance, Iran nuclear power, and un happy people with High Oil prices (just to name a few) is putting much pressure into the country's well being (economically speaking).\n\nNext Election will be tough, The United States definately needs a president to follow up Bush's "balls" and aggressiveness/stupidity (whatever you want to call it) to keep it rolling. Just remember Hitler. He was doing great until he decided to invade Russia and do so much Bull $hit everywhere in europe.
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Good question, Stock Market is up, unemployment is the lowest in many years, new home starts have been growing, manufacturing is on the increase.  So overall the economy is doing well!\n\nCould it be that "Bush" is doing an okay job?  If you look at the media polls his numbers are way down?  So what is going on?????
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Our annual trade deficit has ballooned to $726 billion and our federal budget deficit in fiscal 2006 is $423 billion -- an alarming 3.2 percent of gross domestic product, or national economic output. Workers' wages have been stagnant for 20 years and now they are actually declining. Employer-provided health care is shrinking and 46 million people -- most of them from working families -- have no health care coverage.\n\nOur nation is headed in the wrong direction, and now is the time to take steps to turn it around.\n\nInstead of giving more tax breaks to the wealthy and allowing multinational corporations to ship our best jobs offshore, we have to repeal the Bush tax cuts and insist that Congress repeal federal tax laws that reward corporations that send jobs offshore!$6.592 trillion: Federal debt on June 26, 2003, the day Josh Bolten became director of the Office of Management and Budget.\n\n$8.364 trillion: Federal debt today.\n\nIn the Bush administration, this is grounds for a promotion. On January 26, 2006, Bush said in one of his carefully crafted press conferences, "Our economy is growing, it is strong. This economy has created millions of new jobs, yet it's an economy that is changing rapidly." The jobs being created are a result of unconstitutional looting of the people's treasury by Congress for votes. These are government jobs which lure the people into more and more dependency upon mother government. With our major job sectors destroyed because of NAFTA and GATT, Americans are desperate for any sort of decent paying jobs. It will get worse now that Congress and Bush sold us out again with CAFTA. Sadly, Americans are taking jobs with the Nazi, draconian and worthless Department of Homeland Security. Once those pay checks start rolling in, they will not bite the hand that feeds them. This is how slaves are made. The late, great American, Ezra Taft Benson, wrote in his work, An Enemy Hath Done This, that America will be destroyed from within by Americans. His prediction so many decades ago is materializing right before our eyes.
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Yeah Bush!!!\n\nBilly took a great economy and ruined it.  Most people blam the economy on the current pres, but they are just stupid.  Really economics moves in cycles, and we see the fruits and droughts of an economy two terms after the president.  So I clearly see that Billy was getting to freeky and caring only about his personal pleasure, consiquently overlooking :  TERRORISTS, THE ECONOMY, AND JUSTICE.\n\nTherefore, we see Bush cleaning up after Billys sorryful act.  That's why were're at war and have high gas prices;  we're paying for the sins of the last pres.
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It would be difficult to identify anything which would indicate that the U.S. as a whole is better off than it was 12 years ago. Consider the following:\n\n1. We are in a war in Iraq from which there appears to be no exit strategy, and in which we are experiencing increasing casualties, while spending huge sums of money, mush of which has been completely wasted.\n2. While initially successful in our war with the Taliban and Al Queda in Afghanistan, conditions there are rapidly deteriorating.\n3. Our borders, our ports, and our transportation systems continue as "soft targets," with little to show for Homeland Security efforts but the inconveniencing of millions air travelers with security efforts filled with gigantic holes.\n4. FEMA has demonstrated its total incompetence in dealing with either natural or terrorist-caused emergencies.\n5. Recent legislation has removed some of the basic constitutional protections, specifically that of the Habeas Corpus protection.\n6. Our national debt is at an all-time high.\n7. We have a President who at best is simply a fool, and at worst may well be suffering symptoms of brain damage, or early Alzheimer's (pre senile dementia).\n8. We are overwhelmed, in many ways, by the influx of illegal immigrants. \n9. Our educational product, is one of increasing actual or functional illiteracy\n\nI could go on with much more, but perhaps worst of all is that there is little I can find to say representing an improvement in the quality of life for most Americans.
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Some of the things (since 2000) can't be repaired.When you destroy and sell off the environment, that's it.Our economy,(I don't care what the g.o.p. say) was ahead in the ninties by at least 400 billion.Now the debt we have buried ourselves, and whored ourselves to China and Japan, the u.k. even Canada has a stake in us,is going to take I'm afraid our children to dig out of this mess.Not to mention womens rights,our basic freedoms and everything else they have slapped us in the face with.I wish a third party could win, but the odds of that are about as good as bush really being a christian!
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I agree. The Government is not working FOR the people, it's working for the rich. There is no middle class. Only the rich, and the working poor.  Bush is the worst President in the history of the United States, and his record will speak for itself.
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You are horribly uneducated.  If you call increasing our national debt by billions of dollars per year being economically sound, what happens when the bottom falls out.  I would hardly call this economy booming.  You also fail to mention that Bill Clinton operated with a budget surplus while Bush operates with a huge deficit.  This may be because of the war, but the war was Bush's main cause.  Oh andby the way how is that war coming along.  There is nor end in site and it could be decades before we are able to withdraw.  When Clinton dealt with Iraq he did it with surgical precision and took care of the situation in Iraq without having any type of extended conflict.  The main difference is that the rest of the world repected Clinton, but no one respects Bush.  You also fail to mention that since our commander in chief took power, not one, but two countries have began enriched uranium programs.  In case you don't know what that means, it means they have the power to make nuclear weapons.  One leader directly said they did it because of our president's attitude toward him.  That is good leadership.  Also, since NAFTA there has been a net increase in American jobs, my college international business teacher stresses that fact all the time.  So while we have lost low paying jobs we havce gained even more higher paying jobs.  Look it up, it is a fact.  Clinton did not fire those workers.  Poor business management fired those workers.  They were fired because they were overpayed by incompetent bosses.  Don't blame a president for that.  And you can thank Bill Clinton for the lower prices you enjoy because of NAFTA.  So good question, actually it is not a good question because you are comparing apples to oranges and your facts are wrong.  Congratulations.\nP.S. and G.W. wants to cut educational spendning, so if you want to go to college someday, he wants to make sure you have to pay more.\nP.P.S. and your wonderfol president wants it to be legal to essentially "spy" on you and every other citizen.
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It has to do with the way the economy works.  George Bush has given tax cuts to the rich.  He did this because he believes (as his father and Reagan did) that if the rich have more money, they will use it to create more businesses so that they can get richer; a theory known as "trickle-down economics."  The natural side effect of more business should have been more jobs, because you need people to run those businesses.  Makes sense on the surface.  And it worked to a point, there are more businesses and the ones already there have more money.\n\nWhat this theory doesn't take into account is how businesses operate.  Businesses by nature struggle to hold onto as much money as they can.  They hire as few employees as they can at as low a rate as they can to put together the cheapest materials they can get without risking a lawsuit into a product that the businesses force the employees to make as quickly as possible (to avoid overtime) that they will then charge as much as the possibly can at the market.  So very little money is trickling down into the middle and lower classes.  Added to that, the businesses are charging outrageous prices but on products we need, so we are also having to pay more even though wages have stagnated.\n\nThis creates a huge problem.  Those formerly of the middle class having had no wage increase but definitely having price increase have slipped more and more into the lower class.  That is why the rich/poor gap is getting wider.  The businesses have money, which is attracting the rich shareholders and so that bumps the Stock market way high; and yet the money isn't getting to the consumer and so the economy is still very sluggish, because the consumer (who is also the employee) has no money to put into the system.\n\nWhich will soon provide another problem.  Pretty soon now the middle class (which will essentially be a poor class) will no longer have the money no matter what they do and the products being bought will drop off.  This will damage the businesses, and the people will begin to starve or be without clothing or shelter.  It may even have the potential to create a new Great Depression, because the money will no longer be going through the system.  Incidentally, the first Great Depression (which occurred in the 1930's) started immediately after one of America's stock market hit very high in the 1920's.  This is a bad sign actually that the market went so high so quickly, if something isn't done soon we will be in that Depression again.\n\nWhat we need to do is get the money to the poor and middle classes.  They have to spend the money to clothe and feed themselves (something businesses don't have to do).  We do this by taxing the businesses with capital gains taxes and estate taxes, while dropping property taxes (which still help the rich, but help the middle class far more).  We need to raise the minimum wage so that more employees have more buying power.  And I know this is counterintuitive, but welfare helps.  Giving money to the poor ends with them using that money to give to businesses to get their food also, so it still gets back to businesses who can then use it to pay more employees.  No matter where you cut taxes, it always gets back to the companies; but if you give it to the rich it will only help the rich.  If you give to it to the poor, it helps everyone.\n\nImmigration strangely enough helps out as well.  Those immigrants don't use welfare (no matter what you are told) because they don't want to be on a government list that is checked often and could end in their deportation (which they avoid at all costs).  So they work because they have to.  They take that money and immediately put it into businesses so they can feed and clothe themselves, so it always goes back to creating more business which helps everyone.  But it does so by forcing the businesses to put money back into the system (which they wouldn't do on their own).  Bush is
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1. Got into a senseless war with Iraq.\n2. Sent all the good jobs overseas.\n3. Imported workers from India to replace Americans in High Tech jobs.  Computer engineers and programmers cannot find work in the US.\n4. Planning on importing more illegals to replace Americans doing lousy jobs.\n5. Threatening to go to war with Iran over nothing.\n6. Transformed the US from a superpower into a second world nation.\n7. The dollar is at an all time low and is now currently worth about 3 gold standard cents (The value of a dollar in 1970 was 100 gold standard cents.)\n8. Caused the US to lose the respect of the world.\n9. Got us into excessive debt.  China owns about 60% of that debt.\n10. Reduced the US economy to rubble.\n11. Faked unemployment reports - they only show whos collecting unemployment and not whos really unemployed or UNDERemployed.  After 6 months your counted as employed even when your really not.\n12. Eradicated the middle class.\n13. more...\n\nPeople who say that he is a good president are usually on the public paycheck somehow.  People like teachers, policemen, mailmen, etc.  - or their kids.
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Bush is the answer if the question is "Who is the worst president of the last 50 years, maybe ever?"\n\nWhere the hell do you get that the economy has never been better?
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The economy isn't thriving, largely because of the trade deficit.  The Dow is at an all time high, but the people who are benefitting from that are stockholders.  They are benefitting from the effects of moving jobs to other countries and stealing the pension funds from current and retired employees.  \n \nMajor industries in this country are in serious danger.  The domestic auto industry is in danger of seeing Ford and General Motors go into bankruptcy.  This will have a ripple effect that will affect more than the tens of thousands of people who work for those companies.  All domestic firms that support the auto industry will also be adversely affected.  \n\nThe airline industry is filled with potential bankruptcies in spite of major concessions to the companies by their employees.  This is all being done with the blessing of the Bush administration, the most corrupt, short sighted administration in recent history.  As that wonderful Republican genius Dan Quayle said, "When large numbers of people are out of work, this can cause unemployment."  Yeah, and people aren't working, or are working at minimum wage jobs, the economy eventually has to crash.
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How about a story from today....\n\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/economy_dc;_ylt=Ah0HjPWTby6.X2_eWHQxKNWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\n\nModeration... that's not really great... in a wartime economy that should be REALLY strong and with a HUGE debt that is artifically supporting our economy... come on... how long can we push the debt... OH YOU DON'T CARE... I FORGOT...
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Hes a baaad man. Here are some reasons:\n25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH\n\nEconomic Indicators\n\n1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000\n\n2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.\n\n3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.\n\n4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.\n\n5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.\n\n6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.\n\n7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.\n\n8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.\n\n9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators\n\n10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.\n\n11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.\n\n12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.\n\n13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.\n\n14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.\n\n15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.\n\n16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.\n\nCrime and Drug Use Indicators\n\n17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.\n\n18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rate increased by 3.9 percen
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Here are the facts the media and Democrats don't want you to know:\n\n* Consider the CONSISTENT 4.7% unemployment rate - lower than the average for the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.\n* Inflation has been held under 4% and has been as low as a little over 1% in every year this decade. Compare this with the double digit inflation of the 1970s.\n* Jobs are being created by the hundreds of thousands per month. 200,000 jobs created in March and 130,000 jobs created in April.\n* The stock market is doing fantastic! My own retirement fund has grown by 80% in the last two years - thanks mainly to international funds and small cap funds. Small caps are generally newer startups.\n* The consumer confidence index is at 109.6 ... the highest it has been since it was 110.3 in May of 2002.\n* Housing starts are up 6.9% over March of 2005, and housing finishes are at 23.4% over March 2005 rates.\n* Retail sales are up 7.9% over March of 2005.\n* Tax revenues are up to $2.052 TRILLION dollars for 2005. Throughout the 1990s, the average tax revenue for any given year was only $1.5 trillion. The lesson is lower taxes = more economic expansion = more real gains in tax dollars.\n\nEach of these statistics is verifiable fact. Let's see how many liberals call me a liar. Should be interesting.
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Clinton 8 years = Wonderful life with my husband and family and business.  Bush = 6 years= Hell so bad with my husband I had to buy ear plugs and business is down due to everyone having to pay gas and heat bills and rack up credit cards to live on. I'd say that if Bush can destroy the American dream in 6 years I am surprised we don't have a revolution on our hands.Monday we can all listen to the prick give his written by someone else speech on the illegals that he was giving breaks to and try to cover his a$$ on this just to skid by .I only know that after I listened to President Clinton's ideas and lectures our environment and economy would be in great shape and he was there when disaster hit, not letting it happen . He almost had Bin Ladin and we all know that's more than Bush has done. I still scratch my head on Hussein .All I can say is a balance has to be in the house and I am beginning to think we should have 2 presidents to work together, 1 Dem and 1 Rep. Then at least we could enjoy some good old fist fights :) Lets just say after watching the second 9-11 film on the web I seriously think I was right about the whole 9-11 attacks! Look what the Govt. did after the WW with letting off nerve gas in cities to see how it effects a person. This was on T.V. and I thought if they can use the American people as guinea pigs how far will they go! If our phones or computers should ever be monitored as just the common person, to listen to our talks then the Govt. should pay half our internet bill and our phone bill!
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The economy generally doesn't include tax revenue. The reason it's bad is that it takes the tax burden off of the 5% who control 95% of the money, and puts it squarely on the middle class.