Check out Ted Kennedy’s speech against the Bush administration!
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1016-15.htm
I hope he doesn’t get re-elected :S
That would suck!
This speech is pretty good.
also a fantastic new film is out:
http://www.thecorporation.tv!

:)
nice additions to your site indi!

Have you heard of 9-11???

Your distorted spun out view fails to take into account blatanly obvious events which transpired precisely with the job loss you talk about.

Your methods are so very transparent they are comical.

I think it’s rather cynical to use 9-11 as an excuse for everything.

Bush takes credit for upper-bracket tax cuts as an economic stimulus. Let him have it.

According the graph, the slide began in 2000 before Bush took office.

Yea, did anyone notice how new jobs hit ZERO right as Bush took office? Or maybe the nosedive from Jan. 1 to Jan. 20? That must be Bush’s fault, right? That graph should be used by Republicans to show what 8 years of Democrat will eventually do to Reagan’s promising economic plan. And look–despite the falling-under-Clinton job market AND 9-11 (not to mention the corporate scandals that rocked the economy), Bush seems to be steadying things out, if not bringing jobs back. I think liberals are just jealous because Bush can fix Clinton’s economic idiocy in half the time.

by Clinton’s economic idiocy do you mean the $230 billion budget surplus he left America?

Bush has turned that into a $521 deficit. And the Bush Tax Cuts cost $649 billion over 10 years. Weird.

http://www.cbpp.org/6-2-00tax.htm

PS. If times are so tough as you say, why is Bush giving out tax cuts?

This guy Ed Shaw is linking to me so I’ll link back, but I don’t really agree with what he’s saying. I believe in free-trade and I think outsourcing is a good thing. One, because I’m Sri Lankan and I want more jobs in Sri Lanka.. and Two because this is an opportunity for Americans to move up the supply chain… doing more interesting work, using the Third World as backend to sell more interesting products and services and make more money. If the US invests in Education and Healthcare it will be in a good position to compete with India and China in the years to come. I also believe that 4 more years of Bush and it will be fucked, but that’s just my opinion.

It might have been falling before Bush took office, but he hasn’t stopped, or even slowed down the drastic descent.

Yea Greg,

If you’re wanting to use this graph to look at the job growth / loss during GWB’s presidential term, you want to set the starting point at ZERO, (more or less like “zero-ing” a scale before you weigh something). This makes it the easiest to see a if Bush is in positive or negative numbers from when he started.

As for “the nosedive from Jan. 1 to Jan. 20″ if you’re trying to pin this on Clinton (which YES our current recession DID start while he was still in office), point out the MAJOR nose dive in Jan of 2000, looooong before Bush was appointed presendent by the courts (from a lead of 537 votes or 0.0000900652% of the total FL votes cast).

Honestly, I think Reps & Dems are 99% the same thing. Everyone spins, everyone has their own agenda. Bush is doing a lot more ‘nation building’ than Clinton ever did, and if it was Gore in office w/ the war in Iraq, conservatives would be screaming just as loud (if not louder, ie Rush) as the liberials are now. Everyone spins, everyone has their own agenda. It really is just a matter of who’s B.S. you want to believe in.

Though when it comes to Bush’s econ ideals, I dissagree w/ a lot of what he has been doing. Personally I think socialism/communism and trickle down economics fail on the same matter: Greed.

(Although, the Amish have been doing very well the past couple centuries w/ their socialist communities.)