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The Swamp wrote:colleges are also hard to get into, because of the letup in economy, more people are going to the big state schools in my area, about the only place I can afford.We're supposed to be in a "soft" recovery, but the economy is getting worse, not better. I don't think things are going to get better until Bush is out of office. Unemployment is going to punch through 10% and the democrats are (hopefully) going to use that to get Bush out and get the economy moving again.
I too have heard the job market is the worst it's been in 40 years. What's scary is that we haven't hit bottom yet. There is no telling how bad it's going to get before it finally starts to get better. Businesses are sitting on their wallets, trying to conserve cash to ride out the recession (I'd call it a depression) in the hopes things will turn around eventually.
The Swamp wrote:Bush's problem is that he refuses to address the economy. All he wants to talk about is terror, Iraq, Saddam, Osama, and the rest of the middle east.
The Swamp wrote:Bush's problem is that he refuses to address the economy. All he wants to talk about is terror, Iraq, Saddam, Osama, and the rest of the middle east. When people can't find work, lose their homes, and lose their retirement, foreign policy is the last thing on their minds. When Bush does address the economy, the only thing he can say is that the rich (his friends and cronies) need a huge tax cut. Huh? He is making the same mistakes his father made, burying himself in foreign policy while the nation is in an economic depression. Maybe he figures the entire nation can work at McDonalds and Wal Mart.
Bush is completely out of touch, and all the democrats really have to do is tap into that for a repeat of 1992. If they can't, it's going to be 4 more years of recession.
Rakhmaninov3 wrote:The Swamp wrote:Bush's problem is that he refuses to address the economy. All he wants to talk about is terror, Iraq, Saddam, Osama, and the rest of the middle east. When people can't find work, lose their homes, and lose their retirement, foreign policy is the last thing on their minds. When Bush does address the economy, the only thing he can say is that the rich (his friends and cronies) need a huge tax cut. Huh? He is making the same mistakes his father made, burying himself in foreign policy while the nation is in an economic depression. Maybe he figures the entire nation can work at McDonalds and Wal Mart.
Bush is completely out of touch, and all the democrats really have to do is tap into that for a repeat of 1992. If they can't, it's going to be 4 more years of recession.
Come again? How is going around the country, selling his tax relief plan "refusing to address" the economy? He's sent people to at least 26 states in the last few months to sell the tax plan. Businesses are suffering now, and they need a shot in the arm, specifically, the government NOT to suck up what money they have. The deficit is manageable--the interest we have to pay on it is substantial, but it's nowhere near crippling.
And exactly as someone else already said--I'd blame Osama and Clinton long before I blamed George Bush. The recession had started long before he got into office, and the terrorist attacks made things a lot worse.