Is this the worst economy since Hoover? Evil Bush!!!?
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Hey you can't use actual facts around here! You confuse the liberals.
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BECAUSE BUSH IS A DICKHEAD AND VERY VERY GREEDY WITH MONEY. JOBS NOW DAYS DO NOT PAY MUCH.
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Hate to be the one to break the bad news!\n But...the economy will never be any better..only worse.\n You can't "fix" the kind of problems our economy\nhas overnight.It took YEARS to get the way it is!
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He was president when the great depression started, I remember my dad talking about it and said he was at least partally to blame by his fiscal policys. Hey Bush take a lesson here supply side economics does not work, never has never will.
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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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Supply side economics has never worked, it has always resulted in a recession. This administration is no different. We would really be in the dump if it was not for the war. Clinton used consumer driven economics, he raised taxes on the very rich and reinvested it into infrastructure, which created good paying jobs, when these people started buying things it created more jobs and the whole thing snowballed to the largest expansion in the country's history. When he left office he left the budget in the black and was paying down on the national debt. It did not take Bush long to destroy all the advances that we had made and are now going in debt at a record clip.
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On the scale 1 to 10, I would rate it at 3.  I don't understand about Bush adminitration so upbeat on the economies.  Meanwhile, a lot of American people are still can't find a steady jobs and some still get layoff or pink slip.
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I see the Bush supporters are out in full force today. George W. Bush is, and will always be an idiot. He has not done one thing since he's been in office that even hints at beng intelligent.\n\nHe's nothing more than an overpaid prostitute. He gets paid lots of money to screw the American people.\n\nI guess that makes me a john, so I want my money back !!!
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This girl is full of crap. Bush screwed everything up. Don't give me that crap about how hard it is to be president, FDR didn't have a problem with it. \n\nI hate all these Bush sympathizers, give me a break. \n\nDon't you think if you have the most important job in the world, you should expect at least some responsibility. \n\nGas prices are through the roof and please don't give me that inflation adjusted crap. Nominal gas prices have always been way below inflation adjusted until recent years. Plus the value of the dollar has gone to hell. \n\nWe keep losing important jobs and gaining menial jobs thus skewing the jobs numbers. \n\nBin Laden is still out there, there are more terrorists than ever. Iraq is a mess and gets bombed everyday. \n\nWe are in the biggest deficit ever. EVER. EVER!\n\nAsk America, 33% approve, and that include republicans who disapprove.
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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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I believe it is the lowest any president has ever had. Even Herbert Hoover during the depths of the Depression had a higher approval rating. Bush has systematically ruined this country's economy, military, border defenses, and environment. Enough is enough.
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Bush is spending our country into bankruptcy.\n\nGovernment spending has grown nearly 29% over the last four years.\n\nThe Bush administration has spent money twice as fast Clinton. (7.6% vs. 3.4%)\n\nFighting the Al Quaeda terrorists costs money, but the fiscally responsible solution is to cut back low priority government spending.\n\nPork-barrel Republicans in Congress have increased nondefense discretionary spending at a record rate of 36%. Bush has yet to veto one pork-barrel spending bill.\n\nIn just 4 years, the Bush administration has increased nondefense discretionary spending by 1/3 more than the Clinton administration did in 8 years.\n\nThe government’s 2.4 trillion dollar budget means government is now spending more than $20,000 dollars for every family in America.\n\nOut of control spending is causing deficits and government debt to balloon, mortgaging our future and the futures of our children and grandchildren with total liabilities of nearly $40 trillion dollars.\n\nThe Bush administration claims that it will run a $500 billion deficit. .\n\nThe Bush administration continues to use phony accounting to cover up how the government raids social security to pay for pork barrel spending. The true deficit to be over $700 billion dollars per year.\n\nThe total national debt, including what is owed to social security, has reached a record breaking level of $7 trillion.\n\nIf Bush is reelected and continues to borrow and spend, it will pass $10 trillion!\n\nThat will add to the national debt-a debt we are already paying over $200 billion in interest each year.\n\nThe long run problems are worse. The unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare are over $30 trillion dollars.\n\nBush’s prescription medicare benefit has put an already bankrupt program even deeper into the hole.
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Believe me, Sweety, Bush is going down as the WORST President in US history!  No boubt adout it!
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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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Why he was re-elected is beyond me.  NOLA will get what it paid for.\n\nI am going to be criticized as being insensitive, but here's my $0.02 anyway.\n\nHow dumb are you if you are waiting for the government to tell you to leave the area when there is a class 5 hurricane heading straight for your town that happens to be below sea level???  And how can you be surprised that a house built directly on the beach on stilts to prevent flooding gets destroyed in a bad storm.\n\nI blame the liberals for creating a "victims mentality" in this country.  No one is ever responsible for their actions, "They never told me to leave, its Bush's fault for not telling me to leave."  \n\nSermon over.  Sorry.  Had to vent it, feeling better now.
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Lowered taxes?  My tax "break" was $300.  My share of the deficit Bush created is well over $10,000.  Also, taxes are simply the price we pay for government services, so looking only at how much you pay in taxes is an idiot's game.  You also have to look at what youre getting for your tax dollars.  Bush made us all poorer in a sense by reducing what we get from the govenment in the form of air safety (FAA budget) Highway safety, educational funding, arts funding, and the hundreds and hundreds of other things for which Bush cut federal funding.\n\nNo terrorists attacks?  In case you havent heard, there was a terrorist attack about 8 months after Bush took office.  I believe its know as 911.  Google for it if you are unfamiliar with it.\n\neconomy booming?  Please!  Scroll down to the charts on this page:  http://members.aol.com/freedog1000\n\nLow unemployment?  I dont know if thats a statistical fact, but when you look at the quality of the jobs out there, they are not there.   New jobs at McDonalds just dont cut it.\n\nFighting islamic Jihadists?  If Bush caught Osama, I must have missed the news that day.\n\nBush started a war based on lies about nuclear weapons that has killed over 600,000 men, women, and children.   After cutting the funding to rebuild the levies of New Orleans, and ignoring the global warming that fuels hurricanes, he appointed an unqlalified boob to head FEMA.  Thousands died in the streets of New Olreans as a result.  And just look at the Bush record on the enviroment:\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/freedog1000/wild/
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Hey Redd, Do you remember the old TV commercials saying, "this is your brain before drugs and this is your brain after, and then the guy cracks an egg and fries it. The same principle applies here but unfortunately with our country. Our country before Bush jr.; no deficit, race relations were better, international relations better, etc. and after/during Bush.....well you can "look around" and see for yourself. Our country has become the proverbial "fried egg" so to speak. ;)  Oh almost forgot, the economy. I know it was better for me and all those around me BEFORE Bush, Now Bush talks about job growth, that's great if you want a job at Taco Bell or Burger King, but in terms of real growth, it's not happening.