Carter was the worst president, economically. There is no question about it. I haven't seen anything come close to what it was like back then.
I was quoting FACTS..... What I am hearing in response are idiotic ramblings and opinions of paranoid left wing zealots..... Dispute the facts......with facts... Exactly what is Hillary or Obama going to do...he is an empty suit...no experience....Hitler and Mussolini both gave great passionate speeches....Peron and Chavez the same.... You guys get in a battle of wits and you are totally unarmed.... SteveD
But, the Dems have never had a better idea about anything.... ------------------------- The whole world stands by while we are in Iraq. I have yet to hear any dialogue on how to contain terrorism from anyone in the world. We'll bring home the troops and gather intelligence from Montana or Utah (sarcasm). We need to be in the ME, however unpleasant it may be.
Gee I would think the President that led us into the Great Depression would be higher on the worst President's list with respect to economics. After all unemployment at 5% does not compare with breadlines and market crashes and run on banks, and almost everyone losing jobs. Bush is bad but the hyperbole is kind of funny... Housing bubble was caused by falling interest rates and a lot of things outside of the Executive Branch (private sector lending money to those wo could not afford it etc..). I think people forget that we have had some really bad leaders in this country in the early part of the 1900s and 1800s. Robert Wuhl has a great piece on HBO where he lectures to a college audience and talks about some of our worst Presidents over time. Bush is on the list for sure but economically not in the top few.
Come on, SteveD, you're wasting your time quoting facts. To paraphrase the late William F. Buckley, "what's the point in debating someone who believes the moon is made up of green cheese."
The chart does cut through all the hype and nonsense doesn't it. The irony is that we think other countries like (ie: South Korea) are being sold lies about their governments and how great they are but the truth is all governments lie. What an amazing con job. What I want to know is when these people go into politics do they all take hypnosis or brainwashing classes, seriously how do they all manage to get away with this. ?
Bush is GREAT! Lots of jobs. The pay may not be keeping up with inflation, but with lots of jobs, people can have 2 or 3 to make ends meet. It's a good compromise. And more homeownership! His is the ownership society! The financial institutions having the real ownership when people can't pay their mortgage is what the problem is. Those people warning about the housing bubble years ago should have been warning about deadbeat borrowers instead! The libs don't understand that all that missing money and those sweetheart deals with corporate friendlies have been loading up the Republican coffers for future campaign contributions! Thank you taxpayers!! When we exercise our free-speech rights with those donations, we are going to SCREAM in their ears!!
I've NEVER heard a liberal give a specific, coherent explanation on how they would raise the pay of an employee through government interference. What specific government program that the democrats support will raise wages? (And don't say "raise the minimum wage.")
OK Steve, over 1/2 $Trillion wasted in Iraq and counting, estimates of over 1 $Trillion before it's all said and done. Thousands of dead American soldiers and 10's of thousands of seriously wounded Americans, 100,000+ dead Iraq citizens dead and all this because of our President Bush made a mistake. Losing the war in Afghanistan , runaway inflation, loss of higher paying jobs, failed immigration policy, failed energy policy, yet he's going to make sure our kids are safe from steroids while heroin is flooding in due 100% to Bush's failed war policy in Afghanistan, bloated deficit and growing by the minute, liberal crazy spending habits. He's spending our money and our kids and grandkids money by the way. Loss of OUR FREEDOM from government intrusion, loss of constitutional rights. You already knew all this and I'll bet you could add pages of negatives for Bush if you were honest to yourself. I'm not a left wing zealot so you may not of been addressing me. As you see the facts back up all the Bush bashers. And Steve this isn't a battle of the wits it is a question of common sense and putting America before your party loyalities. Politics isn't religion. By any standard Bush is a failed president and probably could be impeached if any one in Washington had balls. It's ok to be against Obama or Clinton, but to continue backing Bush after all his failures, lies and incompetence makes you look like a party hack. America's success is more important than the republican party's success.