Comments on: Bush is optimistic about the economy http://thefinancepig.com/2008/03/14/bush-is-optimistic-about-the-economy/ Accounting & Finance For Start-Up Organizations Mon, 07 May 2012 21:11:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alex http://thefinancepig.com/2008/03/14/bush-is-optimistic-about-the-economy/#comment-5 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:54:33 +0000 http://budsblogsite.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-5 Correction: Oil price has much more than doubled, it was $26 when Bush took office and has more than quadrupled.

]]> By: Alex http://thefinancepig.com/2008/03/14/bush-is-optimistic-about-the-economy/#comment-6 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:19:18 +0000 http://budsblogsite.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-6 If I were a multimillionaire, I’d probably be optimistic too. The economy takes a downturn, and yacht and Porsche sales go down. If Bush and his friends want a little extra revenue, they can always start another war.

Some of us on the other end, however, are more worried about stuff like being able to buy food.

I don’t get how people can STILL be talking about whether or not the economy is “in recession”. How long has “speculation” about this been in the news? Literally years. Oil prices have been at a record high since Bush took office, and since then have almost doubled. The nation is bleeding jobs at an uncontrollable rate… I’ll stop here before I get started.

We keep ignoring the most important economic issues, like the mysterious disappearance of the middle class and the spreading wealth gap. I know, it’s tempting to have an army of poor workers who will accept any conditions and pay, but do the rich really want the view out their windows to be a third world country?

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