except for the war , dont you think that bush has done a great job ?

Question

unemployment is at 4 percent , lower that it ever was under clinton . interest rates are great , housing is up , stock market is setting record days , people have more money now , than ever before , we all got a tax break ! so what is the problem ? dont you want a safe country to live in ?

Answer 1

except for the fact that the war is like affecting the WHOLE world...

Answer 2

Let's see. Aside from the war....

...we have more restrictions on our lives than ever before.
...we have full wiretapping authority in the government.
...we've added No Child Left Behind, so that the Feds can run our schools.
...we've added the most expensive social program in the history of our nation - a drug benefits program that most seniors don't understand or like.
...we've charged up the "national credit card" like no one else in history. It'll take generations to pay the debt down.
...we've gambled with inflation, hoping that it won't hit until the next president takes office.
...we've overseen the greatest devaluation in our national image abroad since...since...since EVER!
...we've used our strong image in the hemisphere to turn most of the formerly free Latin American countries into anti-American socialist states.
...we've presided over a great time of hostility at home where civil discourse is now a thing of the past.
...we've been privileged to watch the beginning of a meltdown in real estate prices - a meltdown that will end with massive foreclosures before its done.

Yes, it's a wonderful time. I wish more people could experience such euphoria.

Oh, and did I mention the value of the dollar absolutely plummeting on international markets?

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? HRH is so cute! ;-)

Answer 3

The problem is the war. And if you think we're safer now than before just because nothing has happend yet, then you are an ostrich with your head in the sand. I could just as easily say that right up to before 9/11, we were very, very safe. It is a cold comfort when some embittered Sunni psycho manages to smuggle a nuke into downtown New York and sets it off to say I told you so.

Answer 4

The United States is now indebted to China, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Bush must declare for the withdrawal of troops in Iraq so that the funds thereat must be used to pay the debts.

Answer 5

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Here's a few other things to think about:

9/11 – “How could we have known?!”
Iraq - 3500 Dead Gi’s and an estimated 650,000 Iraqi dead
Torture
Katrina – Again, “How could we have known?!”
Dubai ports deal
Valerie Plame
Bypasses FISA = Illegal wire taps
Rich Get Richer
Median incomes down $3000 a year.
Highway Bill w/ 6371 earmarks
Iran uranium enrichment
North Korea explodes a nuclear bomb
Taliban gaining strength in Afghanistan
Abramoff’s 489 visits to the Whitehouse
Exploding deficit

Yeah . . . "what is the problem?"

And about the "How was the play, Mrs. Lincoln" comment - thanks for the compliments, folks, but I didn't make up that line, myself. It's been around for years, and happened to come in handy. It sure makes the point, though!!

Answer 6

ah dear lord, another idiot con w/o clue one.

The stock market isn't setting records. Dow Jones takes *30* stocks and projects and average. Those 30 are doing well, the rest are not.

People will always have more money now than in the past. That's called: in-fla-tion

$300 tax break?!?! FUCKYA!! woohoo! (moron)

The economy is in the beginning of a recession. GDP has slowed down.

The housing market is in shambles. Record foreclosures and mortgage companies are going bankrupt at an alarming rate.


Seriously, I should get paid for this much educating. Teachers and professors get a salary, SO WHY CAN'T I???


(heh...HRH is witty!)

Answer 7

Can a tax break really blind us to worldly destruction? And yes, I want a safe country to live in, which I felt I had to a certain extent with Clinton in the Whitehouse. Not that he was the best Prez ever, but were comparing him to Bush....come on now...

Answer 8

even if I agreed with your question, which I dont, I dont think you can just discount the loss of 3500 American soldiers lives like that.

I read your question like this: "except for the loss of 3500 American troops lives, dont you think that Bush has done a great job?" Well, I am sorry, that isnt something i can just take out of the equation.

Answer 9

army has soaked up a lot of unemployed, then goes off and gets killed in Iraq for nothing. Spending of several trillion dollars to be poured into desert sands to maintian yr supply of wasteful oil, oh and make vicepresidents with Halliburtons and other contractors very rich

Answer 10

In his first term yes. he opened a ton of land for hunting and logging, did a lot for us rural people and gave people tax breaks. In his second term every thing is falling apart and he won't try and fix the gas prices and we shouldn't really be in iraq anymore. so in his first term he was great, his second term he sucks

Answer 11

Haliburton really likes the job he has done, not to mention oil company share holders. Sure wish I bought stock in that one company with the super rich CEO now, due to the stock options.