Bush: "I'm Worried About Gas Prices."

Politics
Bush: 'I'm worried about gasoline prices'
Despite market, he says time to fix Social Security is still now
By Ron Insana
Anchor
CNBC
Updated: 7:23 p.m. ET April 19, 2005

CNBC's Ron Insana sat down with President Bush for an exclusive interview on topics including Social Security, personal savings accounts, the stock market, budget deficit, Medicare, oil prices, the dollar, international trade, and terror. Here is a transcript of that interview.

Ron Insana: Mr. President, thanks for talking to us today upon your return from Columbia, S.C., still on the Social Security program, reform program down there. What's the reception among the people when you go out in the towns and talks to them about it?

President Bush: You know, good where I go, but the most important group of people look at it, kinda the people at large. Do they understand we have a problem? In other words, my strategy has been to say there is a problem and now I'm gonna go explain the problem to the American people, and the problem is pretty easy. Baby boomers like me are getting ready to retire and we're gonna live longer, we've been promised greater benefits than the previous generation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7559029/

Oh, I forgot you are owned by Exxon. :grr:

oops wrong thread.

LOL

"...MY ASS."

"I'm worried about gas prices... MY ASS."

Or "yeah, RIGHT!"

"I'm worried about gas prices... yeah, RIGHT!"

It was left unsaid because it was probably implied, or understood. Whatever mealy-mouthed, phony-ass comments he makes like that, you should just assume that one of these two-word phrases is understood to follow them up at the end.

Tying high gas prices to social security?

What an ass.

:wtf:

Can anyone translate this babble into English?

I heard something or read something about them tapering off... well, I just had to go into a room with the Vice President alone... and we prayed together"

believes in. Too funny Cheney praying!

Bush is such a transparent fraud. Why can't Fundies see it?

;)

Shrub is sitting in his office giving statements and he says, "I'm worried about gas prices...we all are around here." He gets Dick Cheney on the speaker phone, "Hey Dick! You're worried about gas prices too, aren't you?" Cheney replies, "Of course I am...very worried." The reporters write this down and leave.

Like a little school boy, the shrub cannot wait to run down to Cheney's office. "Hey Dick...that was pretty funny the way I called you with those reporters sitting there, huh?." Cheney says, "Yeah, but I almost cracked up when you asked me if I was worried about gas prices...that was a good one."

This is followed by lots of back slapping and laughter...two fucking idiots having a laugh at the expense of the 'Merkan people.

I really, truly, deeply hate these motherfuckers.

That's why he's in as president. The higher the gas prices the higher the profits for his donors. He sickens me.

Insana: It's been five years since we hit the all-time highs for the Dow-Jones Industrial Average or the NASDAQ. Someone joked earlier that, you know, the bad news is the stock market's going down. The good news is that my Social Security money isn't in there. Is this the wrong time to be talking about putting Social Security money into the stock market?

President Bush: No. Listen, now's the right time to talk about permanently fixing Social Security because every year we wait it costs $600 billion more for the next generation. In other words, it's going to cost that much more money a year by -- if there's political delay.

Secondly, I mean, I think most people will tell you that if you hold money over a long term, the rate of return on a conservative mix of bonds and stocks clearly is greater than that which the government earns on your behalf.

And finally, there are ways to design plans that take risk out of a plan. In other words, you switch your mix of bonds and stocks to an instrument that allow, that will take care of any market swings toward the end of your retirement, and so there's a -- look, I mean, I cannot believe that people aren't willing, and aren't willing to say to a younger worker, if you so choose, if it's your desire, you should be allowed to manage some of your own money in a personal savings account, just like congressmen and senators get to do.



"JUST LIKE CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS DO"

Joe Lunchpail will enter into the program KNOWING what SENATORS and CONGRESSMEN know? He'll have the inside trader info, the connections, the brokers?

IS THAT WHAT BUSH MEANS?

When CATKILLER FRIST gets a call telling him to "SELL NOW," will he call Joe Lunchpail, or e-mail him, or WHAT? How about Hastert, DeLay...all those great guys.

WILL WE ENTER INTO THE PROGRAM KNOWING WHAT THEY KNOW, BITCH?

:grr:

I think he doesn't speak in complete sentences because there is no way to tell those lies without them sounding like lies. With incomplete sentences, people get to imagine that perhaps they would have made sense if they had been completed.

know what the HELL he is talking about and when that finally registers with him, he gets defensive and argumentative, as in "how dare anyone question my apparent lack of me understanding what the hell I am talking about."

1. That he can't finish the sentence because he doesn't know what he is saying.

2. By not finishing the sentence, he hasn't really said anything, so it can be spun in any direction.

I'm not saying it is both at once.

And the "privatization plan" that *Co is talking about does NOT allow you to manage it either.

I'm so SICK of this lying.

I even know someone in their 30s who is very successful working for GE in long-term planning. He was trying to sell me on their annuities income plan. He actually told me "I know SS won't be there when I'm ready to retire". Can you believe this? He didn't even KNOW that SS is solvent for DECADES!!!!!! (Of course, I straightened him out.)

this world. His agenda is to destroy the United States economically and politically. He is a globalist businessman. He has no genuine allegiance to this country or to the people of the US whatsoever.

He has already deliberately mortgaged our nation to the globalist businessmen by unnecessarily engaging in a war for oil and profit

George W. Bush, the first unelected leader of the United States, is the consummate FASCIST.

He is a corporate representative placed at the head of our government by economically elite special interests.

His main objective is to insure that the position of power into which the economically elite have positioned themselves can never be effectively challenged democratically or otherwise. Destroying the economic and political leverage of the American people is a major part of his agenda at this time.

This is why Bush is galavanting all over the country like a traveling snake oil salesmen (with his travel expenses paid for with our tax money of course), trying to sell this social security privatization plan.

In the very short run, it will make another fortune for wealthy Wall St. insiders, and you can bet the farm that the Bush family and all their "friends" will clean up big time also.

In the not too long run, Social Security will be "Enron-ed", the insiders will skip off to the Caymans or wherever with all of our Social Security money, and a large number of the American families will have absolutely no disability safety net or retirement fund whatsoever.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

:applause:

description of this moran.

I am amazed at how much destruction one man can cause.

He would try to answer a question and it looked like he got shocked or something. He would twitch his head, grin and say something totally more stupid. (sp)

Oh yeah,....you're the Dennis Moore...steals from the poor, to give to the rich...stoopid bitch!

eh.

Even though democrats are in the minority he still blames them

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President Bush: I, I'm the president of everybody. And I -- look, I go to Fort Hood, Texas, and I sit down at a table with a young solider and we're talking about his tour of duty. And one of the first questions he asked me is what are you going to do about gasoline prices, Mr. President?

I mean, here's a kid who has, you know, put his life on the line for our nation's freedom and for peace and he's worried about gasoline prices. 'Course I'm worried about gasoline prices. And a high price of crude drives the price of gasoline.

And listen, I've been talking to Congress for three or four years now about getting a plan in place, getting a bill to my desk that reflects a comprehensive energy plan. And in all due respect to the members of Congress who are -- might be somewhat critical of the administration, it's time for them to stop debating and time for them to get a bill to my desk.

to push for more bad policies. HE SUCKS.

How's that going to go over at the next G8 meeting?

what a fucking moran. But then, we knew that.

Translation- I'm rich, bitch!!!

What a phoney. As if he was ever worried. Worry is one thing that is guaranteed Bush has never felt.

Anyone who won't even attend the funerals of the soldiers who died in his illegal war, doesn't have the capability for worry.

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here, have a god damned photoshop. Bush, you BITCH!



(I'm pissed because they're clearcutting the mountain in front of my house. Fucking republicans with chainsaws.)

I'm a globalist and they're scum. Bush off.

Kinda like my little sister used to do when she was caught in a lie.

Leave everying standing around and scartching their head saying

:wtf:

while he sneaks off to do something else.

stupid, incompetent asshole

a little late for that... Where was his "worry" last fall, or during the winter, or even a month ago...

did he just notice he had to pay more to gas up his truck?

what planet is this guy living on? Is he a DORK from ORK?

Meanwhile -- what happened to "turn those spigots on" (circa 2000 Gore-bush debate) ---- or how Iraq was going to pay for it's own reconstruction through oil production

"You know, good where I go, but the most important group of people look at it, kinda the people at large. Do they understand we have a problem? In other words, my strategy has been to say there is a problem and now I'm gonna go explain the problem to the American people, and the problem is pretty easy."

My strategy has been to say there is a problem

and now I'm gonna go explain the problem to the American people

and the problem is pretty easy

WTF? Months and months ago, I thought we were as embarrassed as we were ever going to get by this mumbling, incoherent cretin. I really thought we were out of surprises, facial injuries, embarrassing "demands" and "proclamations". He is utterly incapable of speaking English! This is mortifying. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

but I can't laugh about this fuckwad's inability to be articulate. He is an embarrassing dickhead and there's nothing funny about that any more. He has screwed up this country beyond even my predicitions and it'll take us years to improve our image in the world again.

It's like he gets stuck on word, say, I don't know-"PROBLEM", and then he brain-farts and hiccups his way through a sentence. Blundering through foolishly until he finds another word, "STRATEGY". If it were any other president in the world, he would have said, "The strategy" is easy. This absolute clusterfuck of a president doesn't know one from the other, so he uses the words interchangably.

Yeah, I feel closer to tears than I do to giggling about it.

"Big oil can keep on price gouging you Americans and running down the economy even farther. I got mine and I want more."

speaketh to the "kinda the people at large." How inspiring.

What he sees is an opportunity to push his environment destroying measures full tilt boogie.

Fuck him.

I actually got drunk the other night and was so angry I e-mailed him and told him much the same thing! Even called him a lying piece of shit.

what a frickin' loser!

Does it somehow cut into his ability to pay rent or buy other necessities for his family?

he'd be advising people to take their retirement funds from the government & put them on "red" @ atlantic city.

he wants to convince silly people that they're going to get rich competing w/stockmarket blackjack dealers. just 1 more way to steal from the middle class, until we're all reduced to serfdom.

Re-defines incoherence yet again.

Unka Dick, is it puzzle time again????????


AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

:banghead:


:mad:

"There's more to do. I mean, we need an energy bill. We need tort reform. I think we may get an asbestos reform piece of litig -- asbestos litigation reform."

Keywords: Cheney, Halliburton, asbestos......

So glad Ron brought that up (maybe bu$h* rubbed Ron's bald head for good luck?).

<<Insana: One item that seems to be pushing up the price of oil is a falling U.S. dollar, because oil is priced in dollars.

President Bush: Right.

Insana: And some people are wondering if you are prepared to make a forceful statement or take forceful action to boost the value of the dollar and help drive down the price of oil.

President Bush: Right. Well, I, let me, I, I'll try to make a forceful statement right now. This government is for a strong dollar. We do believe the market ought to set the price of the dollar relative to other currencies, but we are for a strong dollar.

Insana: Now, what about the Chinese currency? We'll talk a little bit about trade here because you came out and said recently that you'd like to see the market set the price of the Chinese currency sometime soon.

President Bush: Right.

Insana: Are you getting any indications from the Chinese government, with which we now have a $160 billion annual trade deficit --

President Bush: No, Ron, I -- listen, I, you know, I, I meant what I said, that China's a trading partner, we would like to see them float their currency. They don't move quite as quickly as we do in America. There have been some indications that they're thinking about a, you know, a interim step toward floating the currency. We're constantly urging them, if they're going to take that step, to take it as soon as possible and eventually get to a float cur -- a, a currency which floats. And, you know, I think you would find that officials all up and down our administration and different cabinet officers, cabinet secretariats are constantly talking to China about this issue.

Insana: One item that seems to be pushing up the price of oil is a falling U.S. dollar, because oil is priced in dollars.

President Bush: Right.

Insana: And some people are wondering if you are prepared to make a forceful statement or take forceful action to boost the value of the dollar and help drive down the price of oil.

President Bush: Right. Well, I, let me, I, I'll try to make a forceful statement right now. This government is for a strong dollar. We do believe the market ought to set the price of the dollar relative to other currencies, but we are for a strong dollar.

Insana: Now, what about the Chinese currency? We'll talk a little bit about trade here because you came out and said recently that you'd like to see the market set the price of the Chinese currency sometime soon.

President Bush: Right.

Insana: Are you getting any indications from the Chinese government, with which we now have a $160 billion annual trade deficit --

President Bush: No, Ron, I -- listen, I, you know, I, I meant what I said, that China's a trading partner, we would like to see them float their currency. They don't move quite as quickly as we do in America. There have been some indications that they're thinking about a, you know, a interim step toward floating the currency. We're constantly urging them, if they're going to take that step, to take it as soon as possible and eventually get to a float cur -- a, a currency which floats. And, you know, I think you would find that officials all up and down our administration and different cabinet officers, cabinet secretariats are constantly talking to China about this issue.>>

THIS??? is the leader of the free world?? He can't string two words together to make a coherent sentence. He makes me :puke:

Sure, he wants a strong dollar but his treasury secretary is pushing for a weaker $, he wants alternative energy as long as it's oil, he wants all ideas on the table about social security as long as private accounts aren't an add on. What an destructive idiot!

n/t

:evilgrin:

...and won't be doing anything about them anytime soon.

Bush to raise question of oil production with Saudi Arabia

by Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday he will raise concerns about the effects of high energy costs on the global economy when he meets next week with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.

"I'm going to explain to him that, you know ... high-price crude oil will hurt the international economy," Bush told CNBC's Ron Insana in an interview.


The president said he plans to ask the Saudi prince whether it is possible for his country to step up oil production.

"I think they're near capacity, and so we've just got to get a straight answer from the government as to what they think their excess capacity is," Bush said, adding that he would not characterize the Saudi production as "flat-out" yet.

http://www.energybulletin.net/5475.html

Bush is going to explain to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia the effect of oil prices? :rofl:

goddamn riot, isn't it?

:crazy:

and, dammit, being Americans we don't need no stinkin' international this and international that. I know this because Faux News has said the UN is irrelevant. We own the entire damned world now. All the world greeted us with flowers as we rolled over the earth in the 'war against Terra.'

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

What happened to Bandar Bush? Why hasn't he already answered all his brother Dubya's questions? Could it be "Sooty" Arabia is actually already pumping all it can?

USA USA USA USA! :sarcasm:

Shit, even Bush is starting to admit Peak Oil is here.

But I don't.

There's no way * is the man in charge. He's a pawn, and a stooge.

would say JUST ONE THING that wasn't idiocy or didn't offend me I think I'd faint on the spot.

;)

oh and your fuck head economic AND foreign policies have helped for shit!!!!!!!!!!!

"All that is left behind are a series of file cabinets with IOUs in it. I've seen the IOUs first-hand, by the way, in West Virginia. So there's no real assets in the system. There's paper promises."

He is the first "MBA president" by the way. :eyes:

BEM

Who does he think he is kidding? And does he ever make any sense? Does his brain ever connect with his mouth? Oh and I am real sure that he is worried about his retirement with regard to collecting SS benefits! If I'm not mistaken bu$h** is over the magic age 55, so according to his "plan" he won't have his benefits touched. :eyes: He and his corrupt bidness pardners have stolen enough from the "Murican taxpayers, from veterans, from the working poor, from children and from the Iraqi citizen to live as they have become accustomed too. Have I said lately how much I hate him?

complain and moan and groan, and try to get me to buy into their little "protests" (like don't buy on Thursday, or boycott Mobil), I can say:

YOU VOTED FOR THESE ASSHOLES and LOOK WHAT HAPPENED...
IRAQ WAR NOT FOR OIL, YOU SAY? BAH HUMBUG!

IF that's what it's gonna take to make a change in admin/Congress,
so be it.

I'm just waiting. I copied off that post where all the Repubs made vile, hateful, blaming comments when gas prices went up during Clinton/Gore (and not even as much % as now). I keep several on hand for just that moment. Then I hand it to 'em and move on.

If it has to get worse before it gets better -- bring it on!

Gee... thanks. :eyes:

deit: when was the last time he had to pay for a gallon?

reserves. I heard they're bulging with oil. Why not release some of it to give us peons some price relief?

Oh, but then you wouldn't have as much profit to pad your pockets with. Scum.