Dubya is in a state of denial, again. I can't say I'm surprised though, as this is the first stage in coping with the death of his political career (though some would argue he's already postmortem). Maybe he should be moving on to the next stage- bargaining- to figure out what went wrong. While he's bargaining about the economy, he should probably get a jump start on figuring out what went wrong with his entire presidential career. Dubya, if you need assistance with this part, I'd be more than happy to help. FYI, history is still going to judge you as a dumbass.
While I haven't had the opportunity to listen to Dubya deny that the country is headed toward a recession, I'm imagining that it went something like that.
"Take a look around. See all the foreclosures? That's not because people are unable to afford their homes. No, it's because after they move into bigger house, they forget to sell their old house. It's not because, say, they're losing their jobs, they have bad credit, and/or they can't afford it. Silly Americans. "
On the weekends, I work in a mall for extra cash, and I see it all around me: Furniture stores closing/going out of business because people don't have enough money to buy/keep a home, let alone furnish it; luggage/travel stores going out of business because nobody can leave the country, let alone the state (as gas prices continue to climb). I only wonder if the Nine West shoe store is closing because people can't afford luxuries such as shoes anymore! (Heck, it seems like it's only a matter of time!) The sad part is that I work in a mall where the patrons live in affluent communities. If this is happening to them, what's happening to us average Joe's?
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Hi BYF,
Hope you enjoy this long, wonderful read from Alternet: A Liberal Goes Undercover to Brave America's Premiere Right-Wing Gathering. The link is only an excerpt and the full text appears in chapters at the end of the page. Pierce's Busheney rant should be required reading.
Thanks for stopping by; your comments are always welcome.
FRIDAY MORNING. George W. Bush, when you get right down to it, is a fucker. That's why I don't like him. He's a fucker who does fucked-up things. He's a privileged little shit who doesn't give a damp hell for the opinions of the people he was elected to govern. He buys into the toxic economic theories of unreconstructed capitalism, despite never having had to earn an honest living in his life, and he supports a worldview that cuts out anyone who hasn't had his good fortune -- the worldview of a murderous plutocracy stained with swaths of luck and cruelty where first is first and second is nobody. He's stupid in the truest sense of the word: willfully ignorant and determined to surround himself with people who keep him that way, not only resistant to different ideas but actively hostile towards them. He is neurologically incapable of thinking ahead, and he consigns the consequences of his actions to the status of dreams. And he forced his country into a pointless, unnecessary, unconscionably wasteful war that will poison every aspect of American life for generations.
To Bush, the economy is great as long as wealth continues to flow upward in support of No Millionaire Left Behind, the only successful Bush/GOP initiative.
Right on target, tomcat.
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