Bush Economy the worst since Herbert Hoover
For the 37th month in a row, America is continuing to see job loses with 93,000 jobs lost in manufacturing and 67,000 jobs lost in the service sector in the last month alone. The middle class is continuing to shrink and blacks are losing white-collar jobs at the fastest rate since the 1970's. And with this monumental failure in Bush economic policy, the President is pressing on for a permanent tax cut mirroring his 2003 plan, which adds and additional $1 trillion weight to what is already the largest federal deficit in American history. There is only one question that remains: where did the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief go to? Who is winning if not the working class? Could it possibly be the very richest segment of society who is benefitting? In other words, the favortism goes to those who are already best equipped to weather a down economy? There is no question about it! With this ugly shadow upon Bush's policy, the President has scheudled a national address on Sunday morning. Let's see what he has to say about the economic climate in regards to his sorry plan---if he'll even address the issues and claim responsibility (for the first time ever), or instead just highlight his few and far between term accomplishments.
And speaking of monumental failures, the Roadmap to Peace in Israel is yet another characteristic failure of Bush's. PM Abbas has resigned with his waning power, Sharon and Bush both refuse to deal with Arafat (although an Arafat-appointed official is okay to deal with), and Sharon is re-igniting violence in the region with weekly assasination attempts upon Hamas political leaders (not military, but political). The Iraq war is another series of broken promises and disappointments as well. We were assured that we were liberating a willing people, yet we see more American troops dying in the aftermath of war than in the actual combat. We were told we were fighting terrorism, when the truth is we brought terrorism, domestic violence, and militia groups into Iraq. We arrogantly cast out the incompotent UN weapons inspectors for failing to deliver us a reason to wage war, only to wage a war anyway and find after six months of occupation, governance, and policing that there are no signs of WMD. We entered under the banner of humanitarians to see that our only postwar plan was to manage oil wells while half a year later there is still a water quality and electricity crisis in Iraq. It's scary to imagine where a *second* term under George Bush would leave America and the world. I mean for godsakes, if the first term is all about approval ratings and the second term is about legacy and ideology, that would make the future look quite grim...
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