Bush Compares The Financial Crisis He Created To The Terrorist Attacks He Never Saw Coming
Bush Compares The Financial Crisis He Created To The Terrorist Attacks He Never Saw Coming
Today, President Bush gave his first substantial comments on the current economic crisis, trying to reassure the American public that his administration has a plan to get through it. Toward the conclusion of his speech, he cited the financial crisis in the same breath as terrorist attacks and natural disasters:
We’ve seen that resilience over the past eight years. Since 2001, our economy has faced a recession, the bursting of the dot-com bubble, major corporate scandals, an unprecedented attack on our homeland, a global war on terror, a series of devastating natural disasters. Our economy has weathered every one of these challenges, and still managed to grow.
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Nearly three quarters of a century after the 1929 crash, George W. Bush began gathering his economic advisors to prepare the policy agenda for his incoming administration. There seemed to be little appreciation of the lessons of either Henry Ford or the Great Depression. The first orders of business were massive tax cuts focused heavily on corporations and the highest income individuals to foster economic growth through assistance to the “supply side” of the economy.
But not only did the Bush administration push these destructive policies, officials failed to step in and aggressively address the financial crisis’s warning signs. Stephanie Pomboy, the founder of the economic consulting firm MacroMavens, works in forecasting the housing and credit crises. She told Barron’s:
[W]e can’t resist pointing out had Paulson and his bailout crew used their powers for ‘good’ from the get-go, they could have saved a lot of time, energy and, most importantly, money. Had they simply established a fund to buy up the surplus housing inventory, presently valued at just over $1 trillion, they could have stitched up this wound for less than they’ve spent layering Band-Aid after Band-Aid on top of it.
Unfortunately, the only way the current situation can be compared to a natural disaster is in the government’s response. Commenting on Bush’s lack of engagement, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said this week, “Where’s the President? He’s pulling one of these Katrinas again.”
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F uck Bush, f uck the Republicans...lets take back America, procecute the crooks Repubs and Dems alike. It is time to convict, lockup and set an example for all wanting to steal from the coffer of the US.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pmKeith H. Says:
Why hasn’t there been a terrorist attack on US soil sense September 2001?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pmMatthews said this week, “Where’s the President? He’s pulling one of these Katrinas again.”
Mathews' off and on again love affair with the Republicans for the last 8 years is officially over, it seems.
Anyone else notice that with almost every situation or crisis over the last 8 years it always takes at least 3 to 5 days for them to dry the presidunce out enough for him to appear on TV semi-sober?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pmBut the similarity is obvious - he didn't see either disaster coming.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pmYou can't be suggesting a two day turn around is evidence of something grand, could you?
Or that a market rebound - to say - mid last week is something that should trump the Presidents return from hiding through all of this?
Them_Rep should pull their heads out of their A$$es; it is time for a somber critique and that must be done in the real world.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pmthem_libs Says:
Why hasn’t there been a terrorist attack on US soil sense September 2001?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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Because you're conveniently forgetting the anthrax attacks, the Beltway sniper, the bombing of the Mexican Embassy in New York, the UVA shootings, the Amish school shootings, and the Unitarian Church massacre, to name a few.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm*
TP - IS IT AGAINST YOUR TAX EXEMPTION POLICY TO POST
THE OBAMA STATEMENTS HE GAVE EARLIER?
GIVE US SOME HOPE!
AND SANITY!
PLEASE!
!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pmBushCo created 9/11
Bush created this financial nightmare.
period.
and if this country elects McClueless and Pallid we'll all be further screwed.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm“Bush Compares The Financial Crisis He Created To The Terrorist Attacks He Never Saw Coming”
GDumbya is the prime example of why the word "right-wing" is so often followed by the word "reactionary".
If he had spent less time in the cup with Jim Beam, perhaps he could have earned his keep by actually anticipating something . . . anything.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:41 pmthem_libs Says:
Stocks soar as officials confirm gov’t rescue plan
I see no mention of the rebound in the stock markets all over the world. Why is that Think Progress????
I see no mention from the right of this thin recovery being spearheaded by CORPORATE SOCIALISM.
Wall Street will never be the same as a result of the non-policies championed by you and your ilk.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:41 pmWe're all "Arbusto" now...
*rimshot*
Welcome to the USA: "United States of Arbusto.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:42 pmNow we all know this current implosion is Jimmy Carter's fault, and that blasted CRA he forced on the banking industry back in 1977.
Poor bankers... ***sniff...*** and dang that evil Carter, planting this hideous booby trap deep in the bowels of the industry, full well knowing his evil seed would bear such ugly fruit 30 years later, deliberately making the GOOP look bad right before a major election. Why, that Carter must be some sort of evil genius.
Here, bankers... have another trill on us... ***sniff...*** you poor fellers...
September 19th, 2008 at 12:42 pmStocks soar as officials confirm gov't rescue plan
I see no mention of the rebound in the stock markets all over the world. Why is that Think Progress????
September 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pmDoesn't count. That guy was yellow, not brown.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:44 pmSo basically, stone_stupid is claiming a TRILLION DOLLAR bailout by the Fed is a good thing?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:45 pmSince 2001, our economy has faced a recession, the bursting of the dot-com bubble, major corporate scandals, an unprecedented attack on our homeland, a global war on terror, a series of devastating natural disasters.
This is quite a record. He must be very proud of himself.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pmThe bush administration is a devastating natural disaster.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pmOf course , deploying our entire military in an unnecessary and illegal invasion and occupation while simultaneously giving huge tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% amongst us doesn't effect our economy negatively , right Chimpy ?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pmthem_libs Says:
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Stocks soar as officials confirm gov’t rescue plan
I see no mention of the rebound in the stock markets all over the world. Why is that Think Progress????
September 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
You're trumpeting a trillion dollar bail-out as some sort of "success" , dipshit ?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:50 pmSince 2001, our economy has faced a recession, the bursting of the dot-com bubble, major corporate scandals, an unprecedented attack on our homeland, a global war on terror, a series of devastating natural disasters. Our economy has weathered every one of these challenges, and still managed to grow.
Liar.
The recession was a result of the dot-com bubble bursting, and was used as an excuse to justify tax cuts that Bush had proposed already, for opposite reasons.
The dot-com bubble burst in 2000.
The "major corporate scandals" were orchestrated by close personal friends of George W. Bush.
The attack on our homeland was aided greatly by Bush's failure to pay attention to explicit warnings from his security staff.
The global war on terror was a major foreign policy blunder as executed by BushCo.
The series of devastating natural disasters (Katrina comes to mind) were made even worse and their economic impacts more profound by the incompetence of BushCo in dealing with their aftermaths.
The reason the economy managed to grow was because rather than ask Americans to sacrifice, Bush asked them to "go shopping". And they did, even though the didn't have the money. They "took equity" out of their houses (translation: took on more debt) and they added to their credit card debt.
This whole, tepid expansion-in-technical-terms-only has been financed, by the government and by individuals both expanding their debt levels. It was sustained by the housing bubble.
Now the party's over, and Bush is looking to slip out of the friend's apartment where he invited everyone, leave the empty keg (he put the deposit on someone else's credit card, so it's cool) and pretend that the furniture isn't broken.
Worst. President. Ever.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:51 pmThe Bush/ McCain republicans took advantage of a once in a generation opportunity to loot the system, changing the landscape of the fuel based economy in their favor. America will be great again. After all, the praise of American ingenuity and ability is based on substance. It is just too bad that these republicans would take such advantage of the strengths of this country's most valuable asset - the People.
The silver lining is the republican agenda has been exposed in time and we have an opportunity to reverse some of the devastation caused by the republican congress, Bush and its extension by McCain.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pmHere is to America!
I'm surprisd he was even able to say the word "entrepreneurial" -- without a hitch.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:53 pmWTF?
And thrice WTF?!!!
"Since 2001, our economy has faced a recession..."
"And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table." --George W. Bush, interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Jan. 16, 2007
September 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm911 set in motion the mechanism that is destroying the US. They didn't need to strike again. Just sit back and watch us destroy ourselves....I thank people like you for that.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pmStupid troll asks: "Why no major foreign terrorist attacks in the U.S."? (I hope that you don't mind my clarifying your question.)
They are fighting us over there so they don't have to fight us over here. Bushco gleefully supplied them with several hundred-thousand targets in their own back yard. No need to hop in a motorboat and cruise across that big, scary, ocean.
As for the bail-outs, I hope that you are happy to be investing your tax dollars in the market, without any return.
Moron.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pmthem_libs Says:
Why hasn’t there been a terrorist attack on US soil sense September 2001?
Ever heard of the Virginia Tech shootings?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pmThese time traveling posts are getting a tad ridiculous TP.
Any ETA on when it will be fixed? Or is this as Microsoft would say, "Its not a bug, its a feature!!"?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pmYou gotta feel sorry for W. I mean, so many things no one could anticipate happened during his administration.
No -- happened TO his administration through No Darn Fault Of His Own.
Things like, oh, the sun rising and setting; the seasons passing; babies being born; old folks wishing they were young; cold-hearted orbs that rule the night, stealing the colors from our sight; resistance to foreign occupation by a historically nationalistic and xenophobic Arab population....
Let's just get off his back. The guy obviously needs a rest.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:57 pmPoor Bush. He failed at privatizing social security and having everyone's retirement money go down the drain along with the bad loans.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pmwhen did they let the moron out of the cage? did he run out of shiny things to destroy?
i'm amazed the USA has lasted 8 years without A SHRED of leadership.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pmSure sounds like it, don't it?
Either that, or our lame troll is pretending that the economy is NOT in free-fall.
But let's look at it this way:
the troll seems to be implying that the rise in the stock market is an indication that the health of the economy is not as bad as we say it is. In other words, it is using the stock market as a useful indicator of economic progress.
When Clinton took office, the Dow was around 3600, I believe.
When he handed the keys over to Bush, it was 10,300. That's a rise of about 6700 points, or about 190%
With the end of the Bush presidency looming, the Dow stands at 11,400. That's a rise of 1100 points. A little above 10%. In eight years. (Two days ago, that would have been a rise of 600 points, or about 6%)
Heckuva job, Bushie!
Oh, and, heckuva job, Trollie!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm"Our economy has weathered every one of these challenges, and still managed to grow."
HOW DOES HE FIGURE?
AND WHO'S HE TRYING TO KID?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:00 pmCan't we just arrest him yet?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:01 pmPlaying stupid again!
He'll quote Osama bin Laden everyday to stir fear into the American people. He'll twist Osama bin Laden's words as proof we should continue fighting a ridiculous and wasteful war, that an mandate share of Americans want over.
But he won't acknowledge that the crumbling of America's Economic might was exactly what bin Laden was aiming for. He said so in plain Arabic!
September 19th, 2008 at 1:01 pm"As all Americans know, recent weeks have brought a second wave of terrorist attacks upon our country: deadly anthrax spores sent through the U.S. Mail." -- President Bush, November 3, 2001
September 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pmBush is far too cowardly to ever recognize that he is wrong.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pmHemlock for Gadflies Says:
Let’s just get off his back. The guy obviously needs a rest.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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I know, right? Is 466 vacation days really enough?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pmThe Chymp looks horrible these daze: boy the bottle sure has taken it's toll...
September 19th, 2008 at 1:06 pmStupid troll asks: “Why no major foreign terrorist attacks in the U.S.”? (I hope that you don’t mind my clarifying your question.)
They are fighting us over there so they don’t have to fight us over here. Bushco gleefully supplied them with several hundred-thousand targets in their own back yard. No need to hop in a motorboat and cruise across that big, scary, ocean.
As for the bail-outs, I hope that you are happy to be investing your tax dollars in the market, without any return.
Effing Moron.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:06 pmLet’s just get off his back. The guy obviously needs a rest.
Yeah, taking down brush sure is hard work.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:08 pmIf we actually had a functioning media, commentary would look like this:
a) our economy has faced a recession - that would be two, Georgie, thanks to myriad idiotic neocon actions.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pmb) the bursting of the dot-com bubble - for which we can thank Greenspan and his idiotic pre-election interest-rate hike.
c) major corporate scandals - perpetrated by Bush-backers, abetted by neocon legislative changes.
d) an unprecedented attack on our homeland - see War of 1812, the "Burning of Washington". Idiot.
e) a global war on terror - er, I thought you guys decided we weren't going to use "global war on terror" anymore since you can't wage war on a common noun or a tactic. Desperation shows.
f) a series of devastating natural disasters - I really wouldn't go there. Does this sound familiar? "Heckuva job, Brownie."
Just another day in bushville...This morning bull shit gave another tooth sucking speech.....Seem's to me we all will be a lot better off when we no longer have to see him first thing in the morning...Anyone else think the handler's of bull shit feed him a bowl of wheaties sprinkled with coke and soaked in tripple shot's before the speech.?.....All this crap has happened by neglect or design....Maybe the conspirecy stuff is real...If I live past Nov, not seeing his ugly face will be a big plus......Blessings
September 19th, 2008 at 1:11 pmsorry-ass pack of excuse-makers.
i thought rock-ribbed tough-guy conservatives didn't trade in excuse-making? it would appear from all their recent work that it's all they in fact do.
doesn't pass muster in my platoon. send those boys back home to their mommies.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pmHe listed his downfalls (he missed a few big ones) because of what? To remind us of mcchimpy's legacy?
chimpy was on vacation too much in the beginning of his term and his arrogance caught up with his sorry ass.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pmWayne Says:
These time traveling posts are getting a tad ridiculous TP.
Any ETA on when it will be fixed?
September 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally, Wayne. It already IS fixed, just not in your leg of the trousers of time.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:13 pmTime: New McCain Attack Ad Plays Race Card
[..]
This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:13 pm.
To suggest Bush didn't know about 9/11 is a bit disingenious... NO?
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.html
He knew... yet did nothing!
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September 19th, 2008 at 1:15 pmOur economy has weathered every one of these challenges, and still managed to grow.
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY ARE SOUND.
OZ IS A GREAT AND POWERFUL WIZARD, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:16 pmLeave it to them_libs to defend the Repugs' pitiful financial record over the past 7 1/2 years. He/she must not have had any money invested or maybe lives with his mom and none of this impacts him/her.
How pathetic.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pmI think Bush knew of the oncoming attack. He didn't know exactly when it would be, what it was or what the result would be. He probably thought it would be like the first world trade center bombing. I believe he and Cheney were willing to sacrifice a few American lives in order to orchestrate the war with Iraq so they could control Iraq's oil.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:20 pmOf course they were terribly wrong. I think if they knew the extent of the attack they certainly would have done something - anything. But they did nothing.
He and Cheney were warned plenty of times and turned a blind eye. If anyone has a better explanation I'm willing to listen. But to me, this rings true.
As for the economic crisis, throwing trillions of dollars down a sinkhole kind reminds me of Iraq.
Almost every sentence in that clip is a LIE and said in a Hitler like style.
Has anyone noticed the direction of anger from We the People? Instead of being angry at the source - the neocons, many are taking their frustrations out on one another. Is that in the playbook?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:21 pmRich H,
I'm not here to change your mind. But, may I suggest reading David Ray Griffin's book, New Pearl Harbor?
It sure opened my eyes.
It swayed me from believing that BushCo let 9/11 happen to --made it happen.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pmBush Compares The Financial Crisis He Created To The Terrorist Attacks He Never Saw Coming»
Bush is exploiting the terrorist attacks as he always has... to scare the people, divert attention and hope the people will continue to flock around the republicans for safety.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:29 pmI still find it very difficult to buy the notion that an administration as completely incompetent as this one could pull off an operation as well-executed as the 9/11 attacks.
there is always going to be delusional bushwhacked souls out there
September 19th, 2008 at 1:30 pmKay,
I don't believe our gov't had any complicity in the tragedy of 9/11. I just think the people in the White House chose to ignore warnings - which they did receive - in order to further their own agendas.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pmKnowing who we have occupying (and I mean that in every possible way) the White House, I don't find it too hard to believe.
Yeah, nobody anticipated the failure of the levees either.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:33 pmWhat a dipshit.
9/11 was the first use of "Shock and Awe" and has been used with great, albeit waning effect by President Cheney.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:34 pmAmanda, I couldn't say it better. I get the same feeling any time I see McCain or Palin on television.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pmFor his next trick, Bush will be moving the 14th Army to surround the Reds at Stalingrad while the SS Panzer Division defends Berlin and the Luftwaffe flies its invisible rocket bombers to New York.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:36 pmralph the wonder llama
From January, 1993 when Clinton-Gore took office, until January, 2000 — 7 full years — the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose from 3310.00 to 10,940.50, a total of 230.5%.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pm...hate to get conspiratorial here, but seriously:
If the "terrorists" truly wanted to kill tens of thousands of people and scare the HELL out of us they could have flown two planes into ONE college or pro football game and taken out 70 to 90 thousand people.
Or simply poison the water supply of one or two major cities. Hell, even the Joker knew this, right McBatman?
The gloves are off, Mr. Shrub, since you continue to draw the same "Ace in the hole."
September 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pmKay Says:
It swayed me from believing that BushCo let 9/11 happen to –made it happen.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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I still find it very difficult to buy the notion that an administration as completely incompetent as this one could pull off an operation as well-executed as the 9/11 attacks.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:44 pm.
Testing...
My last post I just made was pre time stamped by 30 minutes early... ODD...NO?
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September 19th, 2008 at 1:47 pmDon't worry. I'm sure Frontier Barbie has a solution. [/sarcasm]
September 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pmThe Bush Administration solutions to the financial meltdowns are based on the same faulty premise as his economic policies--trickle down! It doesn't work!!!!!!!!! Trickle up works. Decent wages, fair bankruptcy rules, protection from predatory lending practices, prevention of the creation of deliberately un-understandable financial instruments, let all businesses get away with murder, crush unions. The Reganomics have killed us. The solution, John McCain was right (he didn''t understand or believe it, but was right)--take care of the foundation of the economy the American worker/consumer. If there had been a moratorium on draconian forclosures and banks worked with consumers to find some win-win compromise solutions, this whole house of cards wouldn't have collapsed. It is Reagan-Bush-Bush2 policies, but Dems, Pelosi and Reid, inter alia, have been complicit. Bottoms up!
September 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pmOne day we hear the market has crashed, and on the next day the stocks soar on a massive bailout plan. Who's paying for the bailout? the taxpayer? Or is one of those bailouts on credit? Debt piling on debt? The rich haven't paid taxes on the last 8 yrs and then there's the rest of struggling just to get by, what a ripoff!
But no! The rich have to get richer NO MATTER WHAT! Let the middle-class taxpayer carry the burden. Let the taxpayer pay for a failed criminal endless war (trillions of dollars).
They had JFK killed. Yet the incompetent loser idiot Bush gets to screw up royally and do whatever he wants and roams free. No one confronts him because those who would are pennyless broke foreclosed confused and hopeless.
Big money rules this country. As long as the rich get richer, the war criminal idiot gets to screw up royally on taxpayer money. Dump it all on failed war idiot, our childrens future and prospects all SQUANDERED ON A FAILED WAR!
I better not run into that idiot Bush because I swear to God I would pop his eyeballs with my bold fingernails! Death to the criminal idiot!
September 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pma know what really pisses me off, this bunch of rich basterd's are borrowing trillion's to shore up huge financial companies and their super rich friend's on the back of baby tax payer's not evev born yet...
.They are going to bail out all this mess and fund this miserable war that our troop's are dieing in and not allowing them to have proper care when they return....Our entire country is in hock and tax payer's are loosing home's at a staggering rate.. There is no oversight or control coming out of congress for this shit cheney/bush have created..Indeed if someone say's this administration has failed their thinking is wrong, it has only failed We the people and country while making the rich richer and bringing us to our knee's...They have won and our country and people have lost....
If Palosi, Reid, Obama and who ever doesen't stop this madness soon we may have to hit the street's, armed, to get a loaf of bread...More and more will be sleeping under bridge's and in abandoned car's....
It might be a good time to write your representative's and tell them you'll kick their ass out of office it they don't start doing their job's.......P.B.& J
September 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThe Bush "Hands off economy" was really hands off. That because he is a do nothing president and McSame voted with him over 90% of the time. McSame and Bush are the same.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:32 pmHow sad all of this has turned out if what we're hearing about this bailout is true. We elect politicians to do the peoples work in Washington and after they get there they are bought off by big money interests who are more interested in saving their own skin than that of the American people.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:34 pmFive million home in foreclosure or default, unemployment rising, the cost of everything going through the roof and the president informs us today that hundreds of billions are going to be required to fix the problem. and by the way you Mr. and Mrs America are going to be funding the bailout. Maybe after the dust settles it will be more like trillions as the government has a habit of low balling initial figures anyway. That is when their not lying about them.
The dollar dropped like a rock today and it finds itself in the high 77 range from 80 and yet the PPT clobbers gold and silver which are real money. If that isn't manipulation nothing is even when the price of oil continues to rise. After all you have to keep hitting the tax payer more and more because the entity that makes the most profit on a barrel of oil is the US government in taxes collected at the pump.
It will make no difference who is elected this year as either candidate will have no other option but to raise taxes. I having nothing against a nation taxing its people. I do however, take exception with how my government spends that money. Not on education, health care or infrastructure improvements, but on bailing out an old boys club whose middle name is GREED and d*** everyone and everything else.
The system is broken and so is government if this is what we have come to. Jefferson was right and we the people let them continue to get away with it.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.....Thomas Jefferson
As a citizen of the United States of America, here is your Citizens Daily Briefing (CDB):
"George W. Bush Determined to Strike in U.S."
September 19th, 2008 at 2:39 pmchimpy was calling the economy strong when it was actually sinking.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pmpete Says:
As for the bail-outs, I hope that you are happy to be investing your tax dollars in the market, without any return.
Effing Moron.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Well, I haven’t seen much return with welfare recipients, so how is this different? At least this is keeping the economy afloat! And when does the hard left care about spending tax dollars? Almost 50% of it is the well to dos anyway!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:07 pmThanks for the correction, MCM.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:13 pmwel, for a start... you're celebrating it. That's different. Most reasonable people would see that as either
a) hypocrisy
or
b) class warfare
Which is it, Trollie?
September 19th, 2008 at 3:15 pmGlobal Warming, Economy, Iraq, Housing Bubble, Katrina, etc. etc.
So once more, the tree hugging librals saw it coming and you didn't. And this would make them *RIGHT* and you *WRONG*.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:31 pmUntil 9/11 is exposed this country will continue down this dark, dark road of :
a reckless foreign policy
September 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pma tanking civilian economy
and a near zero moral standing in the world
them_libs Says:
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pete Says:
As for the bail-outs, I hope that you are happy to be investing your tax dollars in the market, without any return.
Effing Moron.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Well, I haven’t seen much return with welfare recipients, so how is this different? At least this is keeping the economy afloat! And when does the hard left care about spending tax dollars? Almost 50% of it is the well to dos anyway!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Welfare recipients eventually go out and work ; company CEO's walk off into the sunset ........................With mind-boggling settlement packages , for doing everything wrong.
BTW Turdbucket
Rewarding greedy , irresponsible , uncaring louts who back the horseshit GOP anyway is not what the "hard left" cares to pay for ; nor does 99% of the rest of the country..........
September 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pmTP,
These wormhole time jumping posts are extremely hard to follow.
Just sayin....
Oh!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pmAnd Bush is a complete and total mucking foron!
And I guess it is just too damn obvious that all this has happened on the the Republicans watch? Why would I want to elect any Republicans when all this happened with their hand on the wheel?
September 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pmSeems them_libs is down with socialism.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pmdbadass Says:
You’ve never been more correct!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pmthem_libs Says:
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dbadass Says:
You’ve never been more correct!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
And you have never been correct .............
September 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pmDidn't Greenspan voice concern over the overheated housing market two or three years ago?
The response-nothing.
Kinda like the response to that PDB "Bin Laden determined to attack US"-nothing.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:32 pmThem_libs:
September 19th, 2008 at 5:46 pmSo just what is it that attracts you so to socialism?
dbadass Says:
I hate personal accountability, I don’t like working hard, I would rather the government handle everything, I hate trying to take care of my self and the responsibilities that come with everyday life. Things like that!!
September 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pmI see. So you must be overjoyed with the socialization of the financial sector that has been offered up this last week.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:56 pmdbadass Says
I’m overjoyed someone had the leadership to make a decision to prevent a compete meltdown. You should be too! But your Bush hatred fogs up any rational observation.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:05 pmNotice students how the subject switches gears when their bullshit doesn't wash...
September 19th, 2008 at 6:07 pmNotice how the subject is overjoyed to see the Bush administration drag their feet when it is time to clean up the mess they helped create in the first place. He calls it "leadership"
Such is the bigotry of low expectations.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:48 amThis administration will probably want to file the current crisis under "Events nobody could have predicted".
They so absolutely incompetent; how many preventable tragedies have they failed to avert so far?
On second thought, the one action they said needed to be taken preemptively has turned into such a disaster, it doesn't seem to matter what the clowns in the White House do or don't.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:09 amthem_libs Says:
Why hasn’t there been a terrorist attack on US soil sense September 2001?
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Ignorant non point talking point. Why havent I been attacked by a POLAR BEAR in the last seven years? Why isnt ONE 9/11 enough? A better question is after the FIRST attack on the WTC all involved were immediatly arrested and are now spending the rest of their lives in prison WHY IS BEN LADEN still out and about and screening videos? You are such a worthless and ignorant troll.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:55 amthem_libs Says:
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Well what else. Another monumentally ignorant repitition of a moronic hivemind talking point. You are too stupid to be believed and your maniacal laughter is just sad. Stop mixing your anti-psychotics with MadDog 2020
September 20th, 2008 at 10:00 amthem_libs Says:
I’m overjoyed someone had the leadership to make a decision to prevent a compete meltdown. You should be too! But your Bush hatred fogs up any rational observation.
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No you worthless ignorant moron. You are overjoyed that AGAIN the taxpayer will give THEIR hard earned money to the rich and greedy because ignorant hiveminders like you ONLY care about the bottom line of the rich and irresponsible. You HATE when any money helps someone who is hungry but helping people buy that third home in Aspen makes your little thingy hard. You are stupider than rock pudding
September 20th, 2008 at 10:03 amthem-libs is SOOOOO f'ing afraid of the Dems finally coming to the aid of this country and taking it back.
It will be an interesting day on Nov. 4th to see all the collective Repugs heads explode?
Heh Heh
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm