Comments on: Schumer: ‘The President Is Indeed Behaving Like Herbert Hoover’

By: batteries

batteries — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:04:06 +0000

What makes you think that GDumbya is ex-drunken? I see no evidence of that. Seems to me that he is hitting the bottle on a daily basis. What else could explain his incoherent incompetence?

Sorry Tom that sentence was a little bit confusing.
I was referring to his previous experience of being a drunken fratboy cheerleader.
He could well be hitting the bottle as President too, although I tend to subscribe to the theory that there are also possibly medications involved and maybe dell 9400 battery,dell e1705 battery organic brain dysfunction due to medical reasons in addition to any problems stemming from his untreated addiction to alcohol.

By: NOODLES 1999

NOODLES 1999 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:30:50 +0000

HOW STUPID WE ARE…………….WE ALL JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH THIS IDIOT DESTROY THIS COUNTRY

By: opus

opus — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:01:28 +0000

Well, since another disaster is in progress, I guess it’s time for Bush to go on vacation again. Even if he was able to pull his head out of his ass long enough to say something that is actually true and meaningful, he has no credibility. He may as well spend out his last days in Crawford, or run home to mommy.

By: andy phx

andy phx — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:47:28 +0000

Fact checking Bush is a waste of time. Whatever he says, we know the opposite is true. It’s literally that easy. Bush speak=Bush lie.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:50:43 +0000

Alejandro Says:
No president can do a damned thing if he wanted to. Our collective balls are held in the tight grip of the unaccountable and shadowy Federal Reserve Board. If a president said “Hey Fed, raise interest rates.” They would laugh at him and then the whole charade would be exposed for what it is.

I disagree with this. The Fed has bent over backwards to cooperate with bush and is an equal partner in this problem.

I disagree with your notion that a president can’t do anything to effect the economy too. Presidents control regulatory agencies……this has a major effect on our economy. I can’t imagine you not understanding that.

de-regulation was the by word of the hoover administration….sound familiar? Results starting to look similar?…..

By: sectionop92

sectionop92 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:12:22 +0000

It’s ironic…I was recording something and when I switched from my DVD recorder to my default channel (which is C-SPAN) Bill Clinton was speaking, at the exact moment of the channel switch, started talking about the functions of a trickle-down economy. This place has powers.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:31:21 +0000

For Bush, Economy’s second name is KATRINA!

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:20:49 +0000

Typo Correction: (1921-1933)

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:19:39 +0000

Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover (1924-1933) had trickle-down economics. It gave us The Great Depression. At the height of Roaring 20’s prosperity, the majority of Americans were below the poverty line.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:18:37 +0000

No president can do a damned thing if he wanted to. Our collective balls are held in the tight grip of the unaccountable and shadowy Federal Reserve Board. If a president said “Hey Fed, raise interest rates.” They would laugh at him and then the whole charade would be exposed for what it is.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:17:23 +0000

The problem is that for the past 26 years in the US wages and benefits have sucked. Recently, homeowners have counted on their homes going up in value and using the equity to pay off their debts. This should be done by wages. Now that home values have dropped, it has created a crisis. Republican solution: give $200 billion to the banks.

By: sectionop92

sectionop92 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:39:01 +0000

Glenn Beck and his “economic experts” were coo’ing on the “benefits” of the Bush tax breaks a few nights back. According to them, the rich need money to give to us and if for any reason the rich don’t get that money, we get screwed. Oh and if we for some reason got a bigger benefit than they would, we’d be irresponsible with the money, i.e. not investing and putting it toward everyday needs. Glenn was audacious enough to state that he’s never worked for a poor person and mocked both of Hillary and Barack’s healthcare proposals with none of his own. Because alas, we already have the GREATEST system in the world, according to the Viceroy of Crazyland!!!!! Maybe Glenn does need the tax break, since he’s stupid enough to give 10% of what he earns to a tax-exempt church. And he’s probably also taken a bath in the stock market, because of that damned housing market and those deadbeat home owners. If there is a god, it’s time to smite this born-again sh!t-talker. If you abuse a substance, find GAWD…for the second or third time and become a success, lord only knows we have to listen to how you love Jesus and hate anyone who doesn’t take the pills with the crucifix’s on them!!!

By: lespool

lespool — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:49:19 +0000

The irony is that Bush has no problem ordering the treasury to coin billions of dollars to give to the banks after losing billions in loans during the housing bubble. It is absolutely frightening what his is doing to our economy.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:00:53 +0000

The stubborness of Bush and his inability to admit making mistakes assures us that he will indeed make another major mistake. You can take it to the bank.

It was interesting to hear Henry Paulson today on Fox News. He certainly didn’t say anything that will soothe the markets on Monday. His answers were defensive and evasive — on a friendly network at that. I have a hard time deciding if Paulson was clueless or telling us his hands were tied. With his background he shouldn’t be clueless but if his hands are tied he should just resign.

Bottom line, Bush is just ill-suited for the job of President of the United States. He has time and again shown poor leadership skills. Adm. Fallon’s sudden departure is just the latest example of that.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:54:35 +0000

Bushvilles springing up around the country–we take you back to those thrilling days of yesteryear and Hoovervilles–sponsored by your friends at Neo-Con.

By: flavorino

flavorino — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:48:19 +0000

Marie Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

I have doubts that we will recover from the disastrous Bush administration in my lifetime.
The only positive about my comment is that I still do expect recovery — sometime.

That is a possibility. There were some economists a few years ago who said oil in the $80-85/barrel range would trigger a recession. It’s now sitting very comfortably well above $100. I think the dollar is finished as far as it’s position as the global reserve currency.
It is only going to drop further, especially once the change over to trading oil in euros is complete. Everyone is moving out of dollars.
That might be why Dick Cheney has to start WWW3 before he leaves office.

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:09:12 +0000

I have doubts that we will recover from the disastrous Bush administration in my lifetime.
The only positive about my comment is that I still do expect recovery — sometime.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:04:03 +0000

But.. but… look at the stock market! It’s up a few points points! The economy is roaring!

/sarc off

By: tarazan

tarazan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:44:24 +0000

This is much worse than year 2001 recession…In 2001 we did not have a war that is eating up our budget.
In 2001 we did not have a housing market problem.
In 2001 oil was at a very reasonable price per barrel..It was fluctuating between $17.00-$22.00 in year 2001.
In 2001 we did not have a ‘credit crunch’ and banks like these days are looking for cash to stay afloat,with huge burden of liabilities.
What we had in 2001 was a small period recession which was caused by drop in liquid assets, personal and croporate due to fall in values of many stocks which indeed were overvalued at that ime.
It was a big correction.
But what we have now..is the value of US dollar almost cut in half,oil is almost 5 times in price since 2001.
We are facing severe and tough competition worldwide to our products,while overhead of our corporations is getting higher from health to fuel.
These coproations started to move overseas,taking good jobs with them. We are left with services jobs,which is paying less,and making it harder on the average guy to cope with higher cost of living.
We have now currency problem..also an export problem selling our goods, we have an import problems finding a way to buy our fuel from abroad..our dollar is struggling…yet we keep adding more nations to sanctions list,while we need every country to sell our goods to. We have also war mongers who want to get us in more wars ..they seem not to learn from what we are in now.
We need to change ways we are doing now by applying new methodolgies and thinking. We need to look for our interests based on cooperation with all countries around the world..to open markets for our products, simply to survive.
The policy of borrowing to spend from other countries must stop..we have now nine trillion dollars debt and every few months this figure keeps getting higher and higher.
We need people who can put five or ten years plan to put this country on track again while we can…

By: DaTruth

DaTruth — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:17:50 +0000

The current economic situation is like a rope being stretched on both ends in different directions. On one end, the price of oil skyrocketing hovering around $110. On the other end, the dollar is worth less and less as we speak. Evidently the rope is about to break! G-Dumbya-Bush either doesn’t get it or is determined to destroy the economy, so he keeps dumping billions a month on a never ending failed war. Which will crash first the economy or the dollar? Either way we’re screwed! The american economy is being choked to death!