How come five years of the wonderful Bush Administration *still* hasn't
restored the economy & the stock market to what it was prior to 2000?

The economy is great. Unemployment is low, and GDP is up.

Really?
Let's see what the pros say
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/home/gdp.htm

Hmm, 3.5% which isn't bad, but it darn sure isn't "great." The previous
quarters were less though.

So why are we having layoffs, huge gov't deficits, dropping the prime
rate, increasing trade imbalance, dropping dollar, etc etc?

Oh wait, none of that is happening in Hooray-Bush-&-Cheney-World.


... The stock
market is undervalued IMHO.

That's a great excuse. First it was overvalued under Clinton... right...
now after almost 5 years of the great Bush/Cheney leadership, it's still
not as good as under Clinton...

Does anybody else buy this lame BS?



When will you start pointing to all the great accomplishments of
President Bush, instead of blaming others for stuff that he seems to
have screwed up?

Besides the short recession that he helped us recover from,

Really? When was that?

... and the
democratic elections happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, and even
Saudi Arabia (at least on a local level)?


And the fact that more countries than ever hate us, more terrorism than
ever, worst military preparedness ever, etc etc. I guess a few elections
(which seem to be mostly installing America-hating radical Muslim
theocracies) are something to crow about, all right.



... Tax revenues are a function of GDP...which was not growing at a
rate large enough to pay for the increased spending necessary to
support a war that was started in our backyard.


You mean voodoo economics still doesn't work?

Of course it works. That's why the recession was so short-lived.


Then how come you're claiming 3.5% GDP growth is "great" and sputtering
over trying to explain the HUGE deficit, the trade imbalance, the
falling dollar, the layoffs, the "undervalued" stock market, etc etc?



That's funny, I thought if we reduced taxes on those bazillionaires,
they'd all go out and order new yachts or something, and the economy
would boom again...

It is booming.


Really?


BTW noticed they're lowering interest rates again? They do that when the
economy is booming, right?

They're doing that to offset spiking energy costs.


Wait, I thought spiking oil prices helped the Top Secret Cheney Energy
Policy? It certainly seems to have boosted oil company stock.


If only the liebrals could comprehend Econ 101


NOYB wrote:
They'd have to learn math and deductive reasoning first. Ain't gonna happen
in our lifetime. Thus, they all must be assimilated...or wiped out.


Yeah, that's the answer... kill all the disbelievers...

DSK