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Was anyone else as floored as I to see that GWB "rejects recession fears"? I've got news for him, but I think we've been there for a bit. It's just been handled carefully enough that we haven't crashed, but I think we're really teetering on a very narrow edge.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 9:14 PM
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> > you posted something worth discussing
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> Candy, thanks very much, that's a big compliment
> coming from an old timer
Donna...thanks. I truly think this topic is very worth discussing.
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> > I can't believe that GWB is so unaware of
> everything
> > but he didn't know that analysts are predicting
> gas
> > going up to at least $4.00 per gal.
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> Omahume, exactly what I was saying the other day!
> Isn't that what Marie Antoinette lost her head for,
> for being out of touch with her people, "Let them eat
> cake"? Only with Bush it's "Let them spend tax cuts
> and one time rebates" while businesses are closing,
> outsourcing, cutting benefits; inflation is at an all
> time high; and the stock market is being pulled back
> from teetering over the edge by sheer force of will.
> But that begs the question for just how long can they
> really hold it back?
It's not being held back...it's just not being acknowledged. One third of my office was laid off today...but hell, there is no recession. Talk about being out of touch with reality.
IMHO this administration wants to PRETEND that a recession is not in full bloom to give the Republicans a chance in November. It just boggles my mind.
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> Edited by Host_DonnaA at 03/01/2008 12:16 PM
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> Edited by Host_DonnaA at 03/01/2008 1:39 PM
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 9:00 PM
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he has done great for me, if we could have another 8 years like this 8, I can retire at 51.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 8:58 PM
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I meant, can you reasonably expect more from W. Anything positive he said in his campaigns was said because focus groups approved the words and phrases, NOT BECAUSE HE HAD ASPIRATIONS OF BUILDING A BETTER AMERICA. It is called the audacity of self interest and greed.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 8:49 PM
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I would think so, I am so busy I can't track time anymore
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 8:48 PM
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Is there any reason to expect more?
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 8:29 PM
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I was in Lenexa this week along with Topeka, Liberty, Leavenworth, and Lee's Summit. If you can't find a job in all that industry rich area with Ford, GM, and Harley Davidson along with the support plants you aren't looking very hard. I was in Hallmark and they were training 10 new employees that day.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 7, 2008 5:33 PM
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> If there we are in one, we can't tell it here, gas
> and diesel are higher but shit they should be I make
> way more than twice what I did in 81'
First of all, you are ONE MAN. You are not an entire economy. You're in an overpaid profession and good for you. But this doesn't mean that the lady behind the counter selling you your damn groceries, which cost three times what they did in '81, is making one thin dime more than she made in '81.
Most likely she's getting $7.50 an hour, but the gas, groceries, and clothes she needs, in order to keep serving you, have all tripled in price. And they keep going up and up.
And of course she's got no health care, so I hope she doesn't give you her cold or flu while she's ringing up your steak or counting your change back into your hands.
when gas was
> considered high then and gas is jjsut getting close
> to being twice wha tit was then and car prices are
> more than twice, fuel had to catch up sometime.
Catch up? Are you even living in the same country as the rest of us? Fuel has climbed so high that people are cancelling travel plans, QUITTING JOBS because it's not worth it to commute to and from work, and the price of food, clothes, and everything that has to be shipped, has also skyrocketed. $5 for a bag of apples??? Are you kidding me?
I can't believe the empty stores and closed businesses I see, when I go out. A lot of people have been taken out the game lately. It's a bit scary, and apparently it's gonna get worse because the price of corn's going up.
EVERYTHING has gone up--except our pay.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
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If there we are in one, we can't tell it here, gas and diesel are higher but shit they should be I make way more than twice what I did in 81' when gas was considered high then and gas is jjsut getting close to being twice wha tit was then and car prices are more than twice, fuel had to catch up sometime.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 1, 2008 3:14 PM
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> you posted something worth discussing
Candy, thanks very much, that's a big compliment coming from an old timer
> I can't believe that GWB is so unaware of everything
> but he didn't know that analysts are predicting gas
> going up to at least $4.00 per gal.
Omahume, exactly what I was saying the other day! Isn't that what Marie Antoinette lost her head for, for being out of touch with her people, "Let them eat cake"? Only with Bush it's "Let them spend tax cuts and one time rebates" while businesses are closing, outsourcing, cutting benefits; inflation is at an all time high; and the stock market is being pulled back from teetering over the edge by sheer force of will. But that begs the question for just how long can they really hold it back?
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 1, 2008 1:47 AM
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Yea, gas was an all time high at about $1.70 in May. England was above $4.00 at the time. But sorry I do not make it a point to remember every fact prior to 9/11. My point wasn't about gas, it is the fact about how clueless he is about the issue of ordinary people in this country. I guess a President doesn't really need to know about the issues that really affect the American people. What was I thinking? I thought that they are suppose to at least pretend to care a little bit.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Mar 1, 2008 12:24 AM
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> I can't believe that GWB is so unaware of everything
> but he didn't know that analysts are predicting gas
> going up to at least $4.00 per gal. I can't believe
> we have survived seven years with this man as
> President. I want to scream when I hear the people
> talking about the lack of experience of Barack or
> Hillary. Both seem brilliant next to GW. I dislike
> this exchange made by Hillary also. I am so tire of
> both the Bushes and Clintons.
not fer nothing, do you remember what a gallon of gas cost on 9/10/01?
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Feb 29, 2008 11:42 PM
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I can't believe that GWB is so unaware of everything but he didn't know that analysts are predicting gas going up to at least $4.00 per gal. I can't believe we have survived seven years with this man as President. I want to scream when I hear the people talking about the lack of experience of Barack or Hillary. Both seem brilliant next to GW. I dislike this exchange made by Hillary also. I am so tire of both the Bushes and Clintons.
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Feb 28, 2008 11:00 PM
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> Was anyone else as floored as I to see that GWB
> "rejects recession fears"? I've got news for him, but
> I think we've been there for a bit. It's just been
> handled carefully enough that we haven't crashed, but
> I think we're really teetering on a very narrow edge.
Host Donna...I have to say..you're the first HOST I'm truly glad posted....you posted something worth discussing instead of some stupid damned game.
Now..to respond to your post...I wish I could say I can't believe Bush said this..but truthfully...I'm so NOT surprised. LOL
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Re: Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Feb 28, 2008 9:19 PM
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I think someone hit Bush on the back of the head with a 2 by 4 and he doesn't know it.
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Bush rejects recession fears - what?
Feb 28, 2008 9:12 PM
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Was anyone else as floored as I to see that GWB "rejects recession fears"? I've got news for him, but I think we've been there for a bit. It's just been handled carefully enough that we haven't crashed, but I think we're really teetering on a very narrow edge.
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