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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jimcav who wrote (442774)	8/14/2003 11:02:11 PM
From: phyxter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

No, I don't think much of the current Pres' performance. Do I "wish to put the blame for every economic trouble on President Bush"? No. Economic cycles come and go, and after the unusually extended and robust period of growth during the Clinton years, own was going to come. However, the Bush economic policies are fiscal nonsense, motivated by ideological considerations, not economic. They are laying the seeds for a major fiscal disaster and a deeper economic trough in the future. You wanted the previous administration to "temper the upswing"? And how did you think they could do that (as if any politician, even as gifted a politician as Clinton, could sell a policy motivated on reducing economic growth)? Raise taxes further (politically untenable anyway)? And which upswing? The speculative bubble in the equities markets, or the growth in the real economy which produced more jobs and more real wealth? How do you target the one without harming the other? Bottom line: Clinton/Rubin charted a course of fiscal responsibility that worked, and left the country much better off by any measure. Bush is charting a course of fiscal irresponsibility that will leave the country much worse off, and we see it already in the slow job-losing recovery and the massive national mortgage we are leaving future generations. As to the posting history - I really did get bored of the big emptiness that was the usual level of discourse here. I don't mind a good mudfight once in a while, but you gotta have something to feed your head once in while to make it worth the time. I wandered back briefly because after 9/11 I needed to vent. And express my disappointment at the failure of leadership in the White House after the event. Yeah, that's not a popular point of view on this board, and maybe not even the prevailing view in the country at large, but I expressed my view, explained the rationale, endured the raspberries, and moved on again. Last night, as I said, I couldn't sleep and was wandering the web, and stopped by to see what was happening.