Are you really "suffering" under Bush?

Question

To hear some of the Dems/Liberals on here you would think that your lives have fallen apart while Bush has been President.

Yes the war is unpleasant (worse, obviously if you have a loved one affected) to hear about every day. But does it REALLY affect you? Yes, gas prices are high. But other than that the economy is doing great. Unemployment is at or near record lows.

So I'm not asking you to refute my specific points but rather the bigger picture. Are you really suffering? I just read a post that things are so bad under Bush that she was considering leaving the country! Just ridiculous.

How funny is it how few liberals can answer the direction directly. Check out the post where some girl blames Bush for the lead paint issue.

Answer 1

No not really, all those who blame bush on their lot in life are the ones who have their hands out waiting for the government to help them out. I am not suffering, I have a modest lifestyle and guess what I am the only bread winner my wife is a stay at home mom! We have decided to live within our means. What a concept.

Answer 2

The economy is doing great? You should read the news more.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7094262.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7103342.stm

People who approve of Bush's job so far are obviously unaware of the practical effect of the devaluation of American currency. This isnt surprising. The average Bush voter almost certainly never leaves the country and almost certainly has no overseas investments so the current "devaluation" will likely not have a dramatic effect.

However, with inflation set to become a major issue and banks shying away from lending, the problems with the economy will eventually filter from the coasts to the Red States. By that time, there will probably be a democrat in the White House though, and the vast majority of these "sheeple" will just accept the crap fed to them by Rush and Hannity and will never lay the blame where it really belongs: with themselves.

Answer 3

I think if you ask the people of New Orleans who couldn't evacuate because the National Guard troops were overseas instead of defending the homeland, you could find some people who are really suffering.

Or the people in California who couldn't put out the fires because the National Guard were overseas instead of defending the homeland, or whose fire equipment was substandard because the federal government wasn't maintaining it.

Perhaps you could ask the 100 percent of Americans whose dollar is worth half of what it was 7 years ago. Or anyone paying $3.40 for gasoline or $3.20 for home heating oil, both of which are more than double what they were 7 years ago.

Perhaps you could ask the people who will have to pay for occupation of Iraq, or the soldiers who died or their next of kin, or the soldiers who cannot see their families.

Perhaps you could ask the family and friends of the people who died on 9/11 if they are suffering. Or the Americans whose phone calls are illegally tapped or the political prisoners being tortured by the Bush administration.

Of the children playing with lead paint tainted toys because the Bush administration doesn't believe that it is their job to protect the homeland and our children.

Americans are suffering a lot, are you?

Answer 4

I have absolutely done better under Bush. When Clinton was president, I made much less money and had many many problems. Of course I was doing well when Reagan was president too. Those Clinton years were the worst time of my life in every way possible.

Answer 5

Short term, I am not suffering (other than the things you listed, which are indirect). I still get up and go to work, much as I did pre-Bush 43.

The long term worries me. Since Bush has engaged in so much deficit spending, I know that eventually I will have to sacrifice a good portion of my income to pay off the deficit, not to mention the Baby Boomers who are starting to retire.

Answer 6

I was put out of work in 2001 - spent two years looking for another job in high tech, and barely able to get an interview. Bush wouldn't extend unemployment benefits that time, so I returned to college, and sure enough, Cheney cut his trip to the Mideast short, in order to come back and cast the deciding vote to raise interest rates on student loans. Hiring in my previous field hasn't improved one iota (I'm sure the unemployment statistics are lies), and I'm accumulating degrees while I wait for those clowns to leave office. Maybe I'll be better off in the long run, but no thanks to them. Their economic policies are proven failures, just like their foreign policy - it's all a scam to smokescreen the largest transfer of wealth, from the American poor to the wealthy, in all of history.

Answer 7

Depends on what you call suffering. Gas at 3.11, grocery bill is up 40% over the last two years. Wages the same, health care up every year. If you are wealthy I would say not. For the rest of us we are. Can we say he caused all that? Maybe not, but it goes with the territory. Like I don't recall Reagan once asked " are you better off now than you were 7 years ago? "

Answer 8

are conserves asking themselves the same question? You bet they are! And most - beneath it all - would agree that things are worse. What else could they be, with the US mired in an unwinnable war, the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands - unnecessarily. Not to mention a plethora of domestic issues that could well have been dealt with during the term of this president.
We never learn.

Answer 9

Because he's murdering my loved ones in a war that is only increasing our chances of terrorist attacks, putting me and the rest of my family in danger...

Oh wait, I'm sorry, you said that I couldn't use that one....well I guess everything is just fantastic then!!

Answer 10

No, I am doing fine...Luckily, there are people in this world that think about people other than themselves. I do fine regardless of who is President. Doesn't mean I should turn a blind eye while the beliefs that our country was built on are being destroyed and while billions are being sent to Iraq and people who lost their homes in hurricane Katrina are still homeless.