While the Economy Crashes and Burns, Bush Loyalists Are Making a Killing

Karen Hughes helped George W. Bush get elected in 2000 and, for the first two years of his first term, served him as a "counselor."

Bush acquired the role of president by acclamation, thanks to his friends in the Supreme Court. He was never properly elected, not in 2000 and not in 2004.

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It is a cinch that I won't be buying anything from Simon and Shuster or from Random House for a very long time. Books by liars. Hmm. I don't think so.

Interesting how everybody was holding their breath until Obama started making noises which translated said there will be no reprisals for war crimes or Constitution shredding or torture or whatever.

Why?

Because we can now see that Obama is part of a bait and switch operation run by the shadow government, which Ron Paul told us actually does exist. But they did a good job silencing him, didn't they? They can't shut Kucinich up though! LOL

Oh, well, I was for Hillary--- until it became clear she could not continue.

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Who says crime doesn't pay? And when Obama, Biden, Geithner, Clinton, Summers, Holder, Gates and Panetta get finished demolishing the country, they'll do the same thing.

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We ARE a capitalist country. There should be absolutely no surprise in this. I'm more surprised that guys like Rumsfield are giving the money to charity. Of course, he can then write it off his taxes, which is his right. But why is this such a big surprise? It's what politicians DO, and it's what a lot of citizens would do too if they had the chance and opportunity. The rich and privileged do not go by the same rules as the general populace. Never have and never will.

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Well, I doubt that it makes much difference the party of the previous administration. The way I see it, this is just the way things are done in D.C.

Really now, I doubt that most Democrats have proven much different, regardless of accomplishment or talent.

Elites are just that, elite. The oligarchic class is always looking for those who've proven they can sing and dance with the nation's highest leaders. Could this have something to do with how the establishment has been so effective at keeping creativity and change in check?

Corporations own the msm, and even the liberals know how they must frame every issue despite their preferred slant.

Perhaps Obama really is just another glorified puppet of the world's materially most wealthy. His demeanor reminds me of old British tradition of social domination through adroit speaking.

Who says fascism can't have some flavor of "freedom"? Or least the illusion of freedom, via group-think mesmerization.

For the most part, those of us who attempt to speak "the truth that sets man free", find ourselves censored, while misanthropes like the former vice president is given generous quantities of expensive national media time, though he not only has nothing new to say.

The media just uses the elites to gin up controversy because it's just good for business. Cash flow, you know.

Msm doesn't permit the use of the term fascism, probably because it's not good for business. Also, perhaps most of Americans are so conditioned to living in a society of corporate domination of the government, that they don't even know what fascism is.

Now that that word is really necessary. Nevertheless, insightful analysis is generally not the order of the day. I could go on and on, but I'll close by pointing out once again, that 1 million veterans have been rendered invisible, and are not getting the help and care they deserve. Also even the current president is rewarding the advantaged class while hardly lifting a finger to help our poorest, sickest, and neediest, including the elderly and our veterans.

Resources go to farm subsidies, the military, and the rest of it. These are hardly on the map, or just keep on as usual.

The U.S. has been devitalized by greed and invisible, conditioned mind-sets. This a difficult time to "keep up the faith" in the U.S. right now. Passivity of the majority of citizens just lets the same old crap just pull us down further. When will be wake up?

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Employment is high among all former associates of previous Presidents. No big deal..

What IS a big deal is the current Presidents close ties with Wall Street and the favorable treatment given to firms like GS where Obama and co seem to have a special relationship. Billions have poured into them. Then take unions!. We've lost thousands of union jobs but the unions have wound up sitting pretty with ownership in their firms at the expense of creditors and investors (unions plkayed a big role in Obama getting elected). Then take ABC, apparently Obama's personal network. Not a critical thing to be seen on ABC about Obama and millions of ad revenue generated by their "special friendship".

This guy is stealing the money right out from underneath us!

Soon, after trilions in spending programs, unemloyment will reach the Carter levels. Next we'll see the inflation and interest rates soar to those Carter hights.

The general economy is falling to Carter proportions and all the while Obama and his pals will be living very nicely off our hard earned (if there is any to be earned) cash!

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the Bush family was behind the savings and loan scandal which reaped them millions of dollars in profit while stealing it from us. the Clintons were behind the.com bubble which tanked the economy.

George Bush stopped any prosecution by state Attorney Generals relative to the mortgage company fraud that was a part of the current problem. go to my website and Google Eliot Spitzer. You can then watch the video explaining why he was politically assassinated.

Now Obama is in the pocket of the Federal Reserve Bank which will inflate the dollar to destroy it so that a new world monetary system can be put in place. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

My website is www.911insidejob.net.

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Is anyone really surprised by this? I mean really, thats what US Government is all about now, has been that way for a long time now. Its not about the sheeple anymore, its all about personal gain!

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Ayn Rand foretold this in Atlas Shrugged; she called it the "aristocracy of pull".

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"Former members of the Bush administration are taking up prestigious academic posts, inking lucrative book deals, signing up with speakers bureaus, joining big-time law firms and top public relations agencies, and grabbing spots on corporate boards of directors."
The George W. Bush presidency was a complete failure for the United States. These Bush losers spent eight years leading us to the worst US economy since the Great Depression. What could these Bush losers possibly teach us? How the United States can continue losing? When is the United States going to wake up and acknowledge the George W Bush failure for what it is?

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If people write books and other people want to buy them, so what! There are things that may be learned from these books or at least confirm your beliefs about these wing nuts. Seems like a bunch of sour grapes to me.
As far as leaving public service and finding new jobs, they probably still have to support themselves (albeit, in fine fashion).
Like many things these issues get caught in the fluff, not the substance. My concern is not about authors or jobs. My concern (and being a public employee) is what kind of influence do these people keep over public policies and decisions. Wasn't it reported that Phil Gramm worked for the large Switerland bank while also inserting language into banking laws which helped drive us into this mess?
Private bussines and government will always have a unique relationship. It can be beneficial, in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, when the public interest is the focus of the decisions.
However whenever public employees choose to become a part of an industry, that by nature, is profit driven, their influnece,contacts and personal business relationships need to be completely and without questioned severed.
Sorry I know it sounds harsh but people forget it is called public service and these decisions cannot be left up to the invidual as we have seen too many SOB slimeballs slithering away with things that are not in the public's interest

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And don't think that Obama and his goons won't do the same. Clinton and his goons were flying high even while Bush fucked the country. Besides, since Obama ain't gonna hold Bush and his goons accountable, why would you expect them to not cash out?

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And why would I care to buy lying revisionist history? Hmm, I've already seen the Lord of the Rings, so why bother (at least it was entertaining)! That these people that have so devastated this nation morally, internationally, financially, and yet they are not under the jail where they belong is what really bothers me!

Dubya is right history will judge him. And if they are honest historians - they will tell the truth about not just the Manichaean thought, but the sheer incompetence that allowed for the little emperor to rise to the highest office of this nation to begin with! After all is said and done, can we send them all to Gitmo?!?

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Want to know what is wrong with our economy- there it is.
Regardless how badly you fuck up, Your cronies in the upper echelon will always have a job for you.
Please the CEO of Chryler nearly bankrupted HomeDepot.
The idiot 'Brownie' who was handed the Job of head of FEMA, nearly ruined the Arabain Horse Association.
The examples of how these priviledge insiders skirt the judgemental market forces which should have led them straight to the perpetually unemployed line, insteaad of provided a cushy landing every time they fall and take the rest of those below with them.
Makes perfect sense - an average Joe is late to a menial job 3 times and is fired, resulting in difficulty finding another menial job.But hey if you destroy an economy, endanger millions of lives, lie to Congress and the American people, embezzle millions...There is always a high powered, and/or Lucrative postion available.
These people shouldn't just be driven out of the employment sector, they should be driven to prison.

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a time maching. I'd go back to the mid 60's when life was beautiful all the time... .. ...

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The title could have just as easily been "While the Economy Crashes and Burns, Obama Loyalists Are Making a Killing".

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And the beat goes on..."CHANGE we can believe in" in Washington D.C.? I don't think so. It is time for the American people to do what the Iranian people are doing and REVOLT, peacefully of course.
"We live in a beautiful country.But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back.
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress." (Howard Zinn)
When will Americans understand this and act?

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those who need to have 'their moral compass (re)set' turn to Ashcroft LLC, and those that need someont to like and admire, turn to Ridge Global.
"The key to risk management is to manage the risk before it manages you," said Ridge.
Thanks, Tom for filling us in on the details.

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Larry Summers and Tim Geithner have already done enough for Wall Street that they are certainly going to get a reward later.

Obama so far has tinkered around the edges while giving away billions of dollars and trillions in leverage to the banks. He did the same for GM (so that GM can move more jobs to China, Mexico, and Canada.)

It just goes on and on. And its not Dems vs GOP. Its the American people against multi-national corporations. Until you get that then you won't get anything.

True, Obama isn't as bad as Bush on foreign policy but then again we are still fighting two wars and Obama is escalating the war into Pakistan. Go read your histories of Vietnam and Johnson and Nixon.

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for giving us the company names and the names of institutions that pander to failure. I'm boycotting them all.

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Yes, there are such things as big conspiracies. Here's one now:

The implosion of the world's economy is being orchestrated by our private Federal Reserve & the other private central banks!!! It's a scheme of the Illuminati/NWO/globalists to destroy U.S. sovereignty & usher in a one-world dictatorship!

The Elites/Illuminati/NWO/globalists are sick eugenicists who want a herd of merely 500 million sheeple in the entire world, under their control, to serve them under a feudalistic system!

http://www.endthefed.us/

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It's a national priorty that all former elected and appointed officials make boucoup $$$ after they leave office. But this writer could have been a little more fairer in its comments by including Bill Clinton, Al Gore and the Obamas who have raked in Millions for their books and speaking events.

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While the Economy Crashes and Burns, Bush Loyalists Are Making a Killing

Why in the world should this surprise you? You don't think Clinton's minions did as well -- or that O'Bama's will?

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I've had many comments removed from this forum because my outward expression of white hot anger and hatred towards the United States, it's government, and it's people. Well earned anger and hatred, and I AM a well educated, experienced and sophisticated man. I spent ten years from Bush's first theft of the White House until he left "with his head held high." The worst economic and civil crimes in US history being under his belt,and the above mentioned Cartel, ALL sucked up into lucrative employment that when you understand these corporations described, you understand they have no effect on the average American except to further diminish their already threadbare lives. You still want to raise your children to be proud of this nation? How are you going to do that with a straight face? Clearly few Americans know anything about the REAL history of this country from the beginning. Nor do they seem to care. Americans usually parrot their favorite TV news liar/commentator. This country IS NOT a nation of laws, as the Bush Family and associates have demonstrated without question, or slightest doubt. Ordinary English was redefined to allow these people to bypass, ignore, or otherwise ignore long standing laws. George W. Bush was a poster child for notably retarded adults. He was drinking like a fish and on several types of medication whilst in the White House despite his "saved by Jesus speech in '86, to control his poor behavior such as giving television interview whilst intoxicated. All of this Cabal are chronic liars with no remorse for the people they've killed both at home and abroad. The wrecked economy which put millions, myself included, below the poverty line. People who are established horrific criminals of the very first magnitude, are out cashing in on further lies and such. Where are the arrest warrants? When will we see these roaches strapped to a gurney? What in hell kind of country is this!? Certainly not a Democracy. How many more jobs can be outsourced, or just eliminated before a huge number of people can decide on either eating, shelter, or clothes and such. This scenario is ALREADY HERE! It follows that it will only worsen. Why, for god's sake, why are these criminals being allowed to cash in on their crimes with no concern by Obama. I must admit, what little faith I had in this President wanes by the day. His concern is taking care of the ungrateful rich whilst the rest of us just rot. GODDAMN AMERICA. A TERRORIST NATION, THE LARGEST ON EARTH!

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As I continue to hear all this stuff about the failure the bush administation I can see them laughing all the way to the banks. When is the penny going to drop? They were a spectacular success... for them and those who they work for. They robbed the American people of trilions of dollars! They are now collecting their bonus checks as this article illustrates. This gaggle of sociopaths have done a bang up job for the owners of this country and we will all continue to pay for it as will our children and grandchildren that have been sold into perpetual debt slavery. There are none so blind as those who will not see. From two fake elections to the con of 9/11 to the wars and the financial "meltdown" this bunch barely flinched and the people bought it, hook line and sinker.They probably think we deserve it for being so pathetically gullible and willfully stupid.

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President Obama has put two foxes in charge of the chicken coop, Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers, and now he wants to add another fox named Ben Benake. All three are Wall Street/Banker Insiders that are going to do what is best for the people who got us into this mess in the first place.
We do not stand a chance of straightening out the financial disaster that this country is in.

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Several comments have pointed out that Presidential associates and hangers-on always do well, and they have asked "What's the big deal here?"

They may be missing the central irony--that the Bush diaspora are cashing in on their own cataclysmic failure. We know this to be a right-wing specialty.

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Critical thinkers may want to peruse some of these books if only for the same reason that it is important to understand a Hitler. Keep your enemies closer.

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Are we to expect Bush's minions to be standing in bread lines? Of course they will making $$$ out of lies and in many instances profiting from the economic misery of "average" humans.

If Rumsfeld and Paulson claim to be "donating" profits from their ghost-written memoirs, they'll be getting mega-tax write-offs, and obviously they've already already cashed in big time.

Even so, I don't believe they are donating all their profits. A millionaire swindler's greed dies hard.

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It may begin to trickle up to the elites in time. It is an end of a disatrous era of corporate and political elitist hedonism. They will not be able to sell much effective influence in the future because they represent the 20th century dualistic view of capitalism/socialism and the use of war to destroy but not construct.

We are entering a world of interdependence not individual rape and pillage of the global village. They are dinosaurs who cannot see the forest for the trees and they can't hug the trees either because they see enemies behind every tree in the Cold War paranoia that is coming to an end.

We have ahead the need for a geodesic world of flexibility for the eco-economic world of environmental stress. A world that can see interconnections rather than find objections.

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This article illustrates perfectly The Peter Principle played out on a grand scale.

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It'd take all day to list the atrocities the bush crime family inflicted on us, 911, two phony wars, etc., etc.
It's inevitible that there would be some slopover into the current administration as the sheer momentum of the bush crime spree forces this.
What offends me so much about all this is that the evil bastards responsible for so many of our current problems and loss of so much of our national treasure are STILL at large, beating their chests, and bragging about what good little boys and girls they are to the tune of $35 per book.
This is redeemable, but it seems our "justice" department is out to lunch. One has to wonder what hold the bushies have over the Obama administration.

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Infuriating! These retarded sociopaths who ruined America are still raking it in. Worse, they will continue to re-write the horrid history of the Bush debacle. Don't buy anything they write! Haven't you had enough of their deceit, dumbness and anti-American stances. And don't fall for the NYT Best Seller lists - these books are bought by the ton by the Far Right Religious Freaks and forced upon their memberships. They are NOT individual sales. Nothing these bastards do is above-board. Nothing. I will also boycott any publisher who prints these revisionist (as you know they will be) books. All ghost written I'm sure, since this cabal are the dumbest a-holes I've ever seen. I am sick unto death of failure being promoted! Enough!

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I remember reading that Dubya's Cabinet was collectively the most wealthy in history the 15 secretaries worth a few billion...
Off the top of my head:
Hank Paulson--worth some $800 Million mostly from Goldman...
Donald Rumsfeld: made a killing as CEO of Gilead Sciences which makes Ciro--$80Million plus
Cheney: he sold out of the dollar four years ago and sent $80 Million to a European Bond Fund

And the list goes on--certainly the most rapacious and predatory group of government employees ever. Instead of book deals, partnerships and the like they should all be 'perp walked' to the nearest jailhouse...

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As I watched with interest the state of our economy and status throughout the world,
my impression of Barak Obama was one of hope, change, hopefully a little independence of
thought and deed. I was ready to extend time and patience for the transition of President. This is not working, as I concluded with the team of economic advisors, Summers, Giethner, Volker,
keeping,but shuffling, the same military advisors, Gates, Patraeous, etc......., maintaining the same aggressive stance in the middle east, giving the future of succeeding generations to thieves and con men, letting corporations have their way with our society. I have not seen any hope or change from this administration, just the same corporate controlled domination of the populace,
keeping control of the masses.
Now we are moving our military presence into Afghanistan, soon Pakistan, I was
hoping to see something other than an embracing of the status quo, but then I remembered that
our country elected a corporate candidate. I would hope that by this time the population would have awakened to the corporate shenanigans that have been so redundant throughout this
country's history, but then I thought about the collective attention span of America.
The time is ripe for us to stop the political complicit behavior, to adopt the Ralph Nader suggestion of a 1/10 of one percent tax on all stock transactions, to stop the sacrificing of this country's future to the perpetraitors of economic collapse.

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ALWAYS THE DISRESPECT, ALWAYS

Skateboarder takes glide through White House…
‘Tweeting live from the Diplomatic Room. Unbelievable’…
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Democrats are always the disrespectful juvenile behaving ones…
Remember removing keyboard ‘W”s and the disgusting White House graffiti when the Klintons left?
Always the disrespect for the Office of the people.
Liberals do what liberals do.
The always remove two things from a culture…shame and respect.
There are NO excuses.

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And he doesn't realise the Enormity of What He Has Done.

He thinks No One Noticed

He is Currently in Ghana and has Already Achieved Massive Change

TORTURE Simply Is Not Accetpable in GREAT BRITAIN


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Craig Murray Reckons He Ain't Getting Through

He Has No Idea What He Has ALREADY Achieved on a World Wide Basis

"But not only my virtual existence is tenuous. I have been surprised to discover that it seems that I was mistaken about my physical existence too. Today The Guardian leads with the story that Tony Blair knew of a secret UK policy of receiving intelligence from torture. The Guardian goes big, with five follow up articles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk /politics/2009/jun/18/tony-blair-secret-torture-policy
http://www.guardian.co.uk /world/2009/jun/18/torture-mi5-policy-terrorism
http://www.guardian.co.uk /commentisfree/2009/jun/18/torture-intelligence-abuse
http://www.guardian.co.uk /uk/interactive/2009/jun/18/torture-uk-interactive
http://www.guardian.co.uk /politics/audio/2009/jun/18 /terror-interrogation-torture-tony-blair

The strange thing is, I could have sworn that I had been a British Ambassador and had been smeared in a campaign orchestrated by No 10, and then sacked, for opposing this torture policy. I thought I had blown the whistle on this policy five years ago and published a number of government documents which proved the existence of this policy. I even thought I had written a book about it which became a bestseller."

Well Done Craig

You Just Buried Tony Blair in a Pile of Shit

People Have Been Listening and Taking Action

Tony

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...and it is a fundamental flaw in our society. The elite get rewarded richly no matter what they do. A majority of the average Janes/Joes get f*cked no matter how hard they work. Trickle down my as$.

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or, "Torture is in the Eye of the Beholder"
Perhaps, he lost his "amnesia" once out of power, like the rest of them.
We know what the Table of Contents must look like: M T.

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anon,

Thank You for saying this

"Our fathers and grandfathers were locked up as prisoners of war in the middle of a full-scale war against Fascism. Nobody tortured them, hooded them, pissed on them and set savage dogs them. Their families were not taken hostage and handed over to prisons where electric drills were driven into their heads."

It sort of makes me feel for the kid who was sat exactly here (where I am sitting) - and got into the Spitfire - just down the Road at the Main Airfield

And Won The Battle of Britain

If The German Nazis had captured him - there is No Way they would Do

What Tony Blair/George Bush/Dick Cheney Did

Tony

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POST OF THE WEEKEND

Posted by: Spidey, 6/21/2009 6:06:19 AM (No. 5618793) on lucianne.com

People have to remember that all these polls are heavily weighted with Dims but you never know unless you dig into them.
It’s like the speed reading fine print at the end of drug commercials. Polls are simply part of the liberal brainwashing machine.Bill Clinto despite all the scandals always stayed around 60%. Bush always 30 something. The pollsters read caveats then ask the question. “Given the horrible way Bush has handled Iraq, do you approve of his handling of the job?” Doesn’t hurt to have the deaths in the war scrolling across the bottom of your screen every 5 minutes… which we haven’t seen since Obama took over.

Nobody will ask “Given that unemployment is closing in on 10%, how would you rate Obama’s handling of the economy?”
Instead they ask who’s the blame for it.

The bottom line is they can always poll to get the result they want.This might be a fake slip in the poll so they can show them going back up again later.

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Massachusetts housing homeless in motels at $2 million per month…$100,000 tax money to breed Wyoming Toads…
$10 Million tax dollars to improve education in Cambodia…PAPER: Fading of the Dollar’s Dominance…1.6 TRILLION for the Healthcare “Overhaul”…9-11 trillion of new debt…jobless 9.4% at least.

CRAWFISH NOTE: Modern liberalism is a mental disorder. Its gonna get worse because they have the votes to impose more and more secular socialist eco-kook laws on us. You just think its rocky now. You just think its gonna be better by the spring. You just think the so-called Stimulus will shorten the recession. You just think unemployment will be below 9% this year or next. You just think words that solve nothing actually solve problems.
You just think America will show world leadership with a spine for freedom. You just think new taxes are not going to hit you next year. You just think they are finished borrowing and vote-buying by the billion. You just think non-answers and silly apologies are over. You just think blatant lies to your face are over. You just think by summer 2010 your retirement account is going to be near its June of 2008 level.

If you think these things you need to research the democrat Jimmah Carter Misery Index…NOW…J. Carter Obama is here to stay.

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MISERY INDEX = Unemployment rate + Inflation rate (lower is better of course)
Check the highs and lows by Party in the WH and Party controlling congress…

Gerald Ford…..1974–1976…14.93 that reached 19.90 by Jan 1975 (Dem congress)

Jimmy Carter (D)…1977–1980…12.60 that reached 21.98 by June 1980 (Dem congress)

Ronald Reagan (R)..1981–1988…to 7.70 in Dec 1986 from 19.33 in Sept 1981 (despite a Dem congress)

George Bush I (R)…1989–1992 ..9.64 from 12.47 in Nov 1990 (Dem congress)

Bill Clinton (D)……..1993–2000…to 5.74 Apr 1998 (Repub Congress 1994-98) from 10.56 in Jan 1993

George Bush (R)….. 2001-2008…from 5.71 Oct 2006 (Dems took Congress 2006-) to 11.47 in Aug 2008

B. H. Obama (R)…..2009 -from 11.47 Dem congress to ???…9.4+ jobless + inflation 1.3%? for 2009 = 10.7 minimum (dem congress)

(The Consumer PI for All Urban Consumers rose 0.3 percent in May before seasonal adjustment, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today June 17. Over the last 12 months the index has fallen 1.3 percent. This is the largest decline
since April 1950 and is due mainly to a 27.3 percent decline in the energy index.)
REALITY CHECK: Gas prices are up about 50 cents a gallon with drilling blocked many places so this rosy figure will fade fast.

There is no denying, no juking, no spinning…the pattern is clear.
With trillions of new debt…anyone wanna bet it the MI will be under 12 for Thanksgiving?

It is what it is…we are in for a very rough ride the next couple of years at least.

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propagandistic use of snapshot tactic to spin Republican lies, damn lies and statistics

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and telling them why. let your economic vote be heard tell the publishers you will refuse to buy any new books by their house for a year because of their decision to give memoir contracts. If you are alumni of Stanford etc. let them know why you won't be giving to them this year.

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Council of Foreign Relations is the worst for hiring CONVICTED LIAR ELLIOTT ABRAMS which should be kept in mind whenever you hear anyone from Council on Foreign Relations hold forth in public.

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