Matthew Rothschild: Irresponsible Bush Clueless on the Economy

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from The Progressive:



Irresponsible Bush Clueless on the Economy
By Matthew Rothschild, July 15, 2008



With the stock market sliding down around the 11,000 marker, with unemployment up, and gas prices up, and food prices up, and home foreclosures up, Bush acknowledged on Friday, in his usual perfunctory manner, that “these are tough economic times for the American citizens.”

But what does he know?

It was just a couple months ago when he was making fun of a reporter for asking him about gas approaching $4 a gallon so clueless was he.

Now it’s approaching $5 a gallon.

He’s so indifferent to “tough economic times” and has been his whole life that he can’t get off his ass to do anything about it.

Instead, pathetically, he blames Congress.

On Friday, in his radio address on Saturday, and then on Monday with his executive order lifting the ban on offshore drilling, he reduced all of our economic problems to rising oil prices, and then he reduced that problem to inaction by the Democrats.

He pointed his finger at Democrats for opposing offshore drilling—though Bush’s brother Jeb, down in Florida, opposes it, and so does Arnold. Bush also said the Dems were at fault for not allowing drilling in ANWR. He said we can “reach this oil with virtually no impact on the land or local wildlife.” The word in that phrase that troubles me is “virtually.” .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx071508.html

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1. Nothing is junior's fault because if they had given him everything he wanted everything would be

hunky-dory, but since they only gave him 98%-99%, the world is in shambles. :D

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2. Bush did what he did for super wealthy families like the Rothschild's

:wtf: