BushCo has Been Good For the Economy

[berni_mccoy]

Well, at least some PARTs of the economy...

If you are in Oil or Defense, you've done very well compared to the market:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.asp?Symbol=%24indu%2Coilgasref%2Cindoilgas%2Caeroservic&DateRangeForm=1&PT=7&CP=1&C5=6&C6=2000&C7=6&C8=2005&C9=2&ComparisonsForm=1&CE=0&CompSyms=&DisplayForm=1&D5=0&D7=&D6=&D3=0&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart

[Elwood P Dowd]

1. Friends of Bush making billions.

If the Energy Bill passes, they will make even more.

[david_vincent]

2. This is something that the big media are ignoring as hard as they can

SOME people, i.e. oil men (Bush and his sycophantic buddies) are making money hand over fist. Back when the first Gulf War was happening, April Glaspie actually said that there were some people who wanted the price of oil to go above $25 a barrel and stay there, so that they could make tons of profits. Now who's raking it in with the price of oil closing in on 60 bucks a barrel...? We have an administration that is run by, and for, the oil industry. These people are profiteering from the war.

[thecubenruben]

5. If only we could produce more gas

Sorry but if we could build refineries Gas wouldn't be 2 bucks a gallon. People don't win when gas is so high and the dudes with the money and the power are smart enough to know them raking in a few bucks now is no where are good as raking in a bit less over years of growth.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. I got rid of cable, my hot tub, my sons music lessons

I now bike commute to work, and am buying half of what I used to

AND I'm STILL IN the HOLE!

[CAG]

4. This is what I don't understand.. why don't dems, for instance Kerry,

use visuals like this very striking one to demonstrate to the american people just who this administration really serve.

Make fun of Ross Perot all you want, but that weird yoda-looking guy convinced millions to break party ranks and vote for him, and I personally believe it had a lot to do with the fact that he came at us with straightforward facts about the deficit, budget priorities, etc, using simple little pie charts that anyone could understand and nobody could effectively refute.

[thecubenruben]

6. Ross

He was cool. But I grew up near westlake. He isn't to popular around there.

[berni_mccoy]

7. Notice the timing of the steep increase

Things started getting really good once the $ for the war started flowing... that's $300 Billion of taxpayer money making about 160% ROI for these crooks.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. Each dead US soldier made millions for Bush and friends

Anybody want the gross detail of dividing the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq into the total amount of money Bush and friends have made off this war?