Bush Offers Six-Point Plan for an Economic Recovery

[radfringe]

Bush Offers Six-Point Plan for an Economic Recovery
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 4 — President Bush opened up a tough new campaign today to try to persuade the nation that his economic policies are working and to counter intensifying Democratic criticism that he has provided tax cuts for the rich while millions of working Americans have lost jobs.

At a time when the White House is worried about the effect of the uncertain economy on the president's re-election campaign, Mr. Bush went to a state he urgently wants to win in 2004 for his speech on the economy.

He offered what the White House billed as a six-point economic recovery plan: affordable health care, a national energy policy, opening overseas markets to American products, a limit on the awards paid to medical malpractice victims, a simplification of regulations on small business and an appeal to Congress to make his tax cuts permanent

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"Had we not taken action, this economy would have been in a deeper recession," Mr. Bush said. "It would have been longer, and as many as 1.5 million Americans who went to work this morning would have been out of a job."

To back up Mr. Bush's assertion, White House officials cited a Treasury Department analysis but provided no details.

Opponents of the president said they were confused by his assertion, since it implied that the economy was in particularly bad shape. "He's saying that we would have lost 4.2 million jobs without his policies," said Lawrence Mishel, a critic of Mr. Bush and the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a research institution in Washington. "It's implausible because it implies that the economy was on death's door."

[bluestateguy]

1. Just ignore him

Nobody with the last name of Bush has any standing to talk about economic recovery.

[Jivenwail]

3. But they can get an aircraft carrier named after them

Now that daddy is coming here to Newport News this weekend to bless the keel on his new carrier due for delivery to the Navy in '08, how far out of office does whistle ass need to be before they begin work on his?

You won't be seeing a USS Clinton - ever.

[ozymandius]

5. really?

When there is a Dem president and all those Reagan-Bush presidential papers are released, I wonder if they will be lucky to have a car wash named after them.

[Kolesar]

9. They locked up those presidential papers at the Bush library

You can hear the shredders running in the sultry Texas summer night.

[Nay]

2. I offer a one-point plan.

Get that asshole out of office in 2004.

[Dover]

4. My Six Point Plan For Recovery....

Arrest:

1. Dubya
2. Cheney
3. Rumsfeld
4. Wolfowitz
5. Ashcroft
6. Rice

And that's just for starters...

[0007]

6. Is someone holding up the stock market?

With the market showing signs, junior shows us his ass. Who can't figure this one out?

[Dover]

7. As far as timing goes, this rise did happen shortly after Bush had a

pow-wow with several big shots and advisors in finance at his ranch last month.
Bush's economic advisors were:
Secretary Snow, Secretary Evans, Secretary Chao, Chief of Staff Card, Director Bolten, NEC Chairman Friedman, CEA Chairman Mankiw, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Harriet Miers, as well as other key staff.
http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2003/0812/epf201.htm

"The rock is still solid," said Naroff Economic Advisors President Joel Naroff.

Transcript of press conference:
http://news.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20030813/13aug2003150511.html

[emad]

8. Six Point or Six Pint Plan?

In recovery they call it stinking thinking.

[Dude_CalmDown]

13. Six pints - the minimum you'll need to keep from pulling your hair out n/t

:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

[chiburb]

15. 6 PACK plan...

When you finish it, you can return the empties!

[robbedvoter]

10. If it's summertime, we pretend to care about the economy

What? No summit this time?
Don't worry, the 9.11 hoopla will drown this soon, followed by that new product.

[gratuitous]

11. The Bush plan, as I read it

"Who are you going to believe, a bunch of lying reports, analyses and statistics or me?"

[DisgustedTX]

12. Is the six-point plan a pentagram?

Just curious.

[jus_the_facts]

20. a pentagram is only 5 points..6 points would make the Star of David.......

....if it was only a 5 point plan it'd be evil...since it's 6 that would make it anti semetic sounding :shrug:.....regardless his *plan* is bogus x(

[salin]

14. Read Krugman today

part of his plan - is going to China for help. Interesting development.

[Sick of Bullshit]

16. The REAL Bu$$$h Six-Point Plan

1) Tax cuts
2) War
3) More tax cuts
4) More war
5) Still more tax cuts
6) Still more war

[underpants]

18. If it was 11 points he'd have to take off his shoes

oh sorry his COWBOY boots.

[indypaul]

17. POINT SEVEN

RESIGN "miserable failure."

[priller]

19. More undisprovable assertions

Josh Marshall had an excellent article out this week (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0309.marshall.html) where he points out many many examples of the Bush administration coming up with what he calls undisprovable assertions--statements that probably aren't true and that most experts would disagree with, but that you can't say 100% sure are untrue. Of course, there's no way to prove that the state is TRUE, either.

For example, here saying that if they hadn't implemented their tax cuts, that the economy would be much worse. That's a statement you can't say is true or false with any certainty. And note he "provided no details" on why the analysis backed up his claim.

Similarly, with all the WMD statements, that Saddam was stockpiling tons of the stuff, there's no way you could be sure it wasn't true without having the run of the whole country. Of course, now we know it was total hogwash.

By now, however, so many of his confidently expressed undisprovable assertions have turned out to be false, that the Bushies haven't an ounce of credibility left--except with the "liberal" media, of course.

[LoneStarLiberal]

21. Consistent With The Bush War On Science

What is a bedrock of science? Falsifiability. You have to be able to disprove things.

No surprise that the Bush administration is using Dark Side (undisprovable allegations) at the same time they shit all over science and learning.

[MrBadExample]

22. Six points?

I've got just one: