Bush Lauds Strength of Economy

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0904/171140.html

POPLAR BLUFF, MO. (AP) - President Bush (website - news - bio) told Missouri voters Monday that new unemployment figures suggest "the economy is strong and getting stronger" and sharply criticized Democratic rival John Kerry (website - news - bio) for taking "yet another new position" on Iraq.

Campaigning in Missouri on Labor Day, Bush cheered the dip last month in the nation's unemployment rate to 5.4 percent. The economy is rebounding, but unless 900,000 jobs are created in the next two months, the president will head into Election Day saddled with being the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs under his watch.

"This economy, because of our tax relief and because we have great people in this country who refuse to be intimidated, who believe in the future, is strong and is getting stronger," Bush said at the rally in southeast Missouri that was dampened by a steady rain.

Yet, an estimated 8 million Americans remain out of work this Labor Day and the job market remains a political vulnerability for the president, especially in hard-hit states like Missouri.
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Damn, I'd hate to see it if he thought things were bad.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. The economy's great

for him and his chronies

[mhr]

2. Unemployed 51 Months - What You Talkin About Bush?

CV:

BSEE
MBA
Commercial Pilot
18+ years professional work experience
Honorably discharged Naval officer
2,500+ resumes out the door

Hope for future employment?

What's that?

[Lourde_Green]

3. Pshaw!

What-freaking-EVER! I'm living in my corner of hell, and I'm not seeing Jack shit of the great and mighty capitalist paradise he's promising. My father is still working PT at a Yacht club. . .and he might lose that job too. Stronger and stronger my ass.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. Welcome to DU, Lourde Green,

I hope things improve for you soon.

[Lourde_Green]

17. Thanks. . .

It's just Junior's made it a little difficult to get financial aid.
x( and working on my BA just takes up SO much time. So until I move out, I'm stuck. It just strikes me as so much bull shit, that's all.

And thanks for the warm welcome, Pilgrim ;)

*The king is dead- long live the king*

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Thus spake the little dictator

Don't try to stop him, he will twist and re frame anything you say and point it right back out you.

The little dictator will stop at nothing to remain the little dictator.

[BeFree]

5. The economy is strong

But the only thing strong about it is the stench from it's decay.

Junior, like Poppy, is toast.

[Kierkegaard]

11. On the button

This is the issue that killed poppy off. How ironic would it be for Junior to get bumped off by the same bullshit as his father?

[IndianaGreen]

16. Strong as in rigor mortis?

Because that's how the economy is doing for most Americans!

[leesa]

7. Did anyone cheer with him?

[Nordic]

8. "In spite of me and my disasterous mistakes, it ain't totally broke yet!"

Amazing, it just shows the resiliency of the American economy that it hasn't gone down completely in flames yet.

Yet.

Four more years would kill it completely.

[SangamonTaylor]

9. rigght....and during the first 8 months of the bush presidency

the only things we had to worry about were traffic jams and road rage?

Just like his father, President Bush is disconnected from the American People and from reality in general.

The economy is doing great: "Because he says so."

[are_we_united_yet]

10. Bush Lauds the strength of the economy

OK W can you explain this one to me?

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. He doesn't have to

He is the dictator, he just says it and people believe.

[are_we_united_yet]

18. Thought so.

[gratuitous]

13. Ri-i-i-i-ight

And Oregonians have lost $3,000 off their median income in the last three years:

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=70825

There are now more of those loan shark payday loan shops in Oregon than there are McDonald's.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

14. God I hope he keeps repeating this...

The more he says it, the more he looks like an idiot.

[cliss]

15. ..."strength of economy.....

Yeah, what strength there is, in SPITE of the Old Word Mangler. I'm actually amazed there is still some resiliency left in our economy, after the massive looting and squandering these guys have done.

We really do have a resilient economy, but I guarantee it can't take another 4 years of these guys.

[radfringe]

19. he must have seen his optometrist

and was fitted with a new pair of "Rose-colored" glasses

polls show that he gets "high marks" for his war on "terra" (which we may or may not win depending on which of his comments you believe) -- however if you talk to people who have lost jobs, lost health insurance and with winter looming -- the concern is about how to pay for things like food, medications, and heating oil as well as jut being able to pay the regular bills. These same concerns are with people who still have jobs but are worried about losing those jobs.

bush*'s new scheme is "ownership society" -- well - if you don't have money - how can you own anything? Like most of his "plans" they sound good, but if you take off the rose-colored glasses and look closer the plans are half-baked, vague, fuzzy and misleading. Slogans and backdrop banners don't pay the bills. We've had 4 years to figure that one out.

"The economy is rebounding, but unless 900,000 jobs are created in the next two months, the president will head into Election Day saddled with being the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs under his watch.

Past patterns show that the stock market takes a hit in the fall - as does the job market when summer jobs disappear for the season. Even if bush* does manage to cook the books and report fuzzy-numbers - the best he can show is to break even on job creation. However - the paychecks that may go along with those "new" jobs are far less than the paychecks that were lost.

So are we better off than we were 4 years ago? Depends on how strong the rosy-tint is on those glasses.

[hyphenate]

20. Um,

what planet is he living on?