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Godspeed to GW
"jps" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:58:57 -0500, BAR wrote:
jps wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:14:47 -0500, Keith nuttle
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jps wrote:
What a bittersweet moment it was watching GW and crew lift off for
Texas. I wanted to savor the moment but couldn't wait for his
departure.
The King is dead, long live the President.
We have not seen such class in a departing President for many years.
If
I remember right clinton did not even attend the event. President Bush
lead and made his decisions from the facts, and did the right thing;
which was not always what his detractors wanted.
He got blamed for many things, one of the most outrageous was when the
officials in Louisiana would not request federal assistance until it
was
to late. Because of State's Rights issues President Bush could not
respond and was blamed for not responding fast enough. However the US
Coast Guard was there before the winds died down rescuing people from
the storm.
I hope that obama gets a spine before it is to late and tries to
measures up to President Bush. It would be a pity if the first black
man to be President turns out to be a total failure and pushes this
country into another 8 years of depression as the democrats did in the
1930's
Using Bush as an example would be disastrous.
Cut taxes for the wealthy while ignoring the real driver of the
economy, the middle class.
The CEO of my company employs 45,000 people.
Me a middle class guy employs 8 of those 45,000 people.
The CEO of my wife's compnay employs 170,000 people.
She a middle class gal employs no one.
This, like the rest of your responses, is a non-sequitur. The fact
that CEOs earn 700 times, on average, of the mean salary of the rest
of the company is obscene.
A game of egos played by an elite cadre of peers. Greed at its worst.
And to think any of what they earn will trickle down to affect the
economy is stupid. It's been proven wrong time and time again and yet
it's celebrated by fools like you who think he's blessed to have the
gilt of funding bailouts for billionaires.
Sort of like union officials?
http://www.labornotes.org/node/513
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