Bush Tries to Assure Families on Economy

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Associated Press

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush tried Saturday to assure many families that he knows they are struggling to pay bills, even as he again defended the economy's strength.

''Some of you worry about your ability to afford health care coverage for your families,'' Bush said in his weekly radio address, recorded at his Texas ranch.

''Some of you are concerned about meeting your monthly mortgage payments,'' Bush said. ''Some of you worry about the impact of rising energy costs on fueling your cars and heating your homes. You expect your elected leaders in Washington to address these pressures.''



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Bush.html

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He never retreats from the swift-boating lies. It's the same old strategy - lie like crazy, and usurp your opponents' strengths. Without question, the chimp has done everything he could to eliminate health care coverage from kids (see SCHIP), to withhold heating assistance from the poor and elderly, to deny the government from taking any action that might help average people, instead of Halliburton and Blackwater. This is breathtaking in its arrogance, and whoever wrote it for him must have laughed out loud as they did it.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Republicon oil & munitions cronies are doing great." - Commander AWOL

"So you noisy proles can just shut up and sit down. It will TRICKLE DOWN to you eventually. Smirk."

- Commander AWOL Bush

[rodeodance]

2. the word TRIES is very telling.

[BeatleBoot]

3. All Talk, No Walk.

Everything he has done caused the situation we are in today.

Earmarks? How about the Iraq War Earmark?

How about you firing your economic advisors when they revealed the truth: that this war was going to cost trillions of dollars and put us into debt for generations to come?

All Hat. No Cattle.

[LynnTheDem]

4. ''Some of you worry about ...heating your homes

Democrats succeeded in reversing cuts sought by President Bush to heating subsidies
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317045,00.html

''Some of you are concerned about meeting your monthly mortgage payments,''

"the Bush administration has cut the value of subsidized- housing vouchers as much as 13 percent."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404EEDD103DF937A35756C0A9629C8B63

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/18/BAG7KCAJHS1.DTL

''Some of you worry about your ability to afford health care coverage for your families,''

Bush vetoes child health insurance bill
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21111931/

"Clean Air"

"Healthy Forests"

"Patriot Act"

One can never overestimate the deep gullability of the rightwing American voter.

[Faygo Kid]

8. Beautiful. Thanks. You nailed it.

The chutzpah of the wingers never ceases to amaze me. You nailed it with these links.

[ShockediSay]

11. I think the real dividing line b/n the haves and the have nots are the new mothers

the mothers in the 'have families' can afford to stay at home to be full time moms

the mothers in the 'have not families' have to get back to work ASAP to TRY
to make ends meet

"Two Americas do not equal One Great Nation"
(I said that, feel free to quote w/out attribution)

[w8liftinglady]

13. excellent-I see my next ltte

[salin]

15. This should be a thread of its own.

Exceptionally powerful - using his words and the links to coverage of his actual actions.

[UpInArms]

5. Chasm widens between rich and poor in U.S.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/16/business/income.php

By David Cay Johnston
Published: December 16, 2007

NEW YORK: The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office show.

The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher.

The total income of the top 1.1 million households was $1.8 trillion, or 18.1 percent of the total income of all Americans, up from 14.3 percent of all income in 2003. The total 2005 income of the 3 million individual Americans at the top was roughly equal to that of the bottom 166 million Americans, analysis of the report showed.

The report is the latest to document the growing concentration of income at the top, a trend that President George W. Bush said last January had been under way for more than 25 years.

Earlier reports, based on tax returns, showed that in 2005, the top 10 percent, top 1 percent and fractions of the top 1 percent enjoyed their greatest share of income since 1928 and 1929.

...more...

[Solly Mack]

6. and the punchline?

found it

"..and to ensure that the money you send to Washington is spent wisely -- or not at all,'' Bush said."

[UpInArms]

7. "Some people call you the elites; I call you my base."

Bush gazed around the diamond-studded $800-a-plate crowd and commented on the wealth on display.

"This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores," quipped the GOP standard-bearer. "Some people call you the elites; I call you my base."

...more at link...

[allisonthegreat]

16. That smiley ass bastard...when people do with out at his expense! n/t

[havocmom]

9. Instantly envisioned the bewildered Poppy, staring at the scanner at a grocery store

When they try to look all populist, they sure fall on their faces.

[Ilsa]

10. Give Bush 4 bits and send him to the market for a lof of bread for

his sandwich at lunch today. Let him see how hard it is for families to try and buy a simple loaf of bread with 50 cents. The cheapest I've found this week was 59 cents. So close, yet so far.

[Sam Ervin jret]

12. Why don't we readdress all our bills to our dear President so he can really KNOW our "struggle"

PERSONALY

What is that address at Crawford and at MAINE?

[MichiganVote]

14. Some of us just want your raggedy ass out of that office and off that plane asshole.

[Hugabear]

17. What the FUCK would he know about how most Americans live?

Wasn't it his pappy who was mystified about a grocery store scanner? These people are so out of touch with reality it's frightening. It reminds me of the royal monarchies hundreds of years ago.

[fascisthunter]

26. He Knows That if We All Are Poor, He Remains Wealthy (nt)

[Patchuli]

18. You notice how * repeats the painfully obvious

but never says what the f he's going to do about it? What a POS. He 'feels our pain' and I guess that's enough for him.

:puke:

[Lisa]

19. "Don't buy gas if you don't need it."

Actually he said that back in September, 2005. But it's the same mindset on display. He really does believe that the programs he's cutting have no connection to the people who are struggling for basic survival -- housing, groceries, and heating fuel. No, anything that smacks of "big government entitlement programs" is Bad and must be Destroyed.

[ribrepin]

20. Oh shit---run for the hills

Bush is reassuring us on the economy? Buy a cabin way up in hills and put all your cash in gold. :yoiks:

[Demeter]

24. Second the Motion

There's nothing worse than getting W's attention--nothing!

[truthisfreedom]

21. His pat-on-the-back fakery won't pay any bills this week.

More and more people will be driven into financial despair, and they'll quickly come to realize exactly where the buck stops.

The American buck stops right at the feet of the bush administration, and it's not going anywhere but down, into the bush abyss.

[lpbk2713]

22. "Yes, we Republicans owned all three branches of government for seven years."

"But it's all the Democrats fault .... honest."

[bif]

23. Some of you worry about having an incompetent, dumbshit asshole for a president

Would be more like it.

[Zorra]

25. Bu*h paraphrased: "You folks out of bread? Why don't you eat cake?"

:shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

27. I'm sorry, you were saying something, Mr. "Give the Rich everything and lead-pipe the poor"?

Bewsh's opinion hasn't counted since 2000.

Continue with your 8-year nap and stop pretending like you're coherent, butthole.