Liberals please tell me...?

Question

Which of bushes "Failed Policys" that yall like to preach about killed the economy?

Ive asked this before, and noone seems to be able to answer. Specifically.

I know its easier to be a robot, and parrot Pelosi, and the rest of teh stooges. but personally it seemed we really started falling apart after the liberals took congress. Timeline coincidence? i think not

Answer 1

Remember that before 2007 Democrats controlling the congresses, we had 2 wars, Katrina, 9-11 and Libtards so called "Bush Failed Policy" for 6 years, the Stocks Market still peaked and Unemployments at its lowest point in the history.

Answer 2

Yes, you've asked this before and it seems like no liberal is able to answer it properly again.  They're funny that way....all rants about Bush and the economy and nothing to back it up.

Answer 3

They (libs) will point lots of fingers, but fail to recognize that the republican congress led by Newt Gingrich balanced the budget under Clinton. The dem controlled congress led by Nasty Pilosi has sunk us deep in debt.

All the socialist programs that have failed and cost us TRILLIONS of dollars have all been dem programs. (The New Deal, The Great Society)

Most wars fought by Americans were initiated by democrats.

And yet they keep beating their heads against the proverbial wall.  

Answer 4

it's not so much Bush's policies... as much as Republican party policies...

which Bush supports... so he clearly has a hand in it...

it's the constant push to deregulate, which all too often leads to businesses overextending and causing a bubble and then a collapse...

S&L with Reagan... Homes with Bush...

also starting a war in a nation that produces oil... surely doesn't help as the supply comes into question and prices will increase...  

Answer 5

Well let's see

1 put the horse show judge in charge of FEMA. That pretty well killed the economy of the Gulf coast

2 attacked a sovereign nation under false pretenses. That's cost us 700 billion dollars (all of it long term debt)

3 doubled the national debt through tax cuts to the very rich (now every American owes $31,000).

4 lax over site of credit markets. We don't even know the final cost of that yet.

Those are economic failed policies. Now do you want a list of other failed policies

Answer 6

Given that the recent disasters would have occurred regardless of who was in the Whitehouse (Katrina and Rita, 9/11, the dot com collapse, the Enron and World Com fiascoes, escalating world energy demands, the housing scandals, etc...etc...) it only seems logical that the liberals would blame Bush - logical to liberals, that is.

Answer 7

1) The 9/11 attacks which Bush failed to prevent, despite warnings, and may have been involved in.  This greatly accelerated the Bush recession.  We don't know the facts about what really happened on 9/11 because we haven't had a legitimate investigation.

2) One trillion dollars spent on the needless war in Iraq is money unavailable to support those in need, our education system, job training, etc., or just money that could be given back to the poor and middle class taxpayers to make life easier.

3) Tax cuts that largely went to the rich.  You might say the poor and middle class got tax breaks as well, but all these tax breaks either cut aid to the states and cities - so people suffered from either a lack of services, increased state and local taxes and fees, or both.  And the suffering and increased state and local taxes fell disproportionately on the poor and middle class.  So basically, the net result was a reverse Robin Hood effect.

4) Failure to develop new energy sources helped contribute to $4 a gallon gas, which triggered price increases everywhere.

5) A large part of our failed economy is due to the transfer of jobs overseas to low wage countries.  Yes, this was a flaw of the Clinton administration as well, but it accelerated greatly under Bush.  When manufacturers get rid of decent jobs with good benefits paying $15-$30 and hour and ship them overseas where wages are $0.25 and hour with no benefits, workers here lose their jobs.  Those companies who want to keep jobs here have to cut costs to compete, and that means lower wages.  This is now speading to white collar jobs such as those in the IT sector, where Americans can't compete with low paid workers in India who can work remotely.  If things continue as they are, when you need help at Home Depot you'll be speaking to someone in India on a video screen.  With all of the lost jobs, the laws of supply and demand allow companies to pay at or close to minimum wage.  So when Bush talks about all of the jobs created, they are minimum wage Wal-Mart jobs with few benefits that replaced good wage union jobs with good benefits.

6) The demise of the union, which started with Reagan, but continues strong under Bush.  His labor secretary, Elaine Chow, is supposed to protect workers, but she is doing everything she can to help business exploit workers.

There is so much more, but that is all I can think of for now.  All of these things interact with each other as well, which compounds the problem.

While the Democrats have failed to do what they were elected to do - end the war, and impeach Bush - they have done a lot of good.  One of the main things they did was to raise the minimum wage - they had to slip it into an Iraq funding bill to force Bush and the Republicans to go along with it.

Don't blame the Democrats for not doing enough on the economy - they don't have the 2/3 majority to override Bush's veto.  Wait and see what we do to fix this country when President Obama has a majority in the Senate (hopefully a filibuster proof 60 Democrats) and the House.  Without Republican interference we will do a great deal of good and restore our democracy and status as a great country.

Answer 8

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Liberals can't answer this question

Answer 9

It's war.. plain and simple.  Yes I know Congress had a role in it too so spare me.

The crazy spending of this presidency (fiscal policy) has cheapened our currency.  Inflation, which is an alternate tax, has skyrocketed.  Of course you will tell me, "inflation has been kept at low levels during this presidency".  Actually M3 (what the big money does) money supply ceased to be reported in 2006 as deemed by the Bush administration.  With speculated numbers of M3 inflation is at about 11%.

Then you will tell me, "But the dollar has risen recently".  I will say China is backing its bank reserves more by buying more dollars and soaking up the excess.  It's also a smooth move because instead of effectively devaluing our dollar (and our debt owed to them) the Chinese said, "Oh know you don't".  If they dump all of their U.S. dollars on the market, we are screwed.

  

Answer 10

I guess we all just imagined the banks failing and the near collapse of our financial system.  Say tried to get a loan lately?  All of that is the charge of the executive branch.  I could go into detail but I'm not wasting my time on a partisan hack.