Bush complains Iraq war drowns out good economic news

Bush complains Iraq war drowns out good economic news

Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 7-May-2006 10:30 hrs



US President George W. Bush (R) holds the dog
bone he bought for his dog Barney at Fragers
Hardware Store, in Washington, DC where the
President made a surprise visit to talk about the
economy. Bush, battling a slump in his poll
ratings, expressed frustration that bad news from
Iraq is drowning out what he called good news on
the US economy.

President George W. Bush, battling a slump in his poll ratings, expressed frustration that bad news from Iraq is drowning out what he called good news on the US economy.
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In an interview with the financial news network CNBC, Bush said he had "been spending a lot of time on the economy" in his public pronouncements, to little avail.
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"The problem is that we're in war, and sometimes it's hard for people to get a positive message about the economy when they're troubled by scenes of violence on the TV screens," the president said.
(snip/...)

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/116962.asp

catapulting the propoganda on the economy.

"I just spent some of my hard-earned money on Barney. I bought him a couple of toys to chew on -- but don't let him know until I get over there, because it's a surprise."

Yeah, right. Someone slap him.

End the war, right friggin' now!

Anyway ...

The little bastard told the graduating class at OSU today that they were entering one of the strongest job markets ever. Who knew a college degree was required to work for McDonalds.

That the junta can cook figures like it can cook intelligence?

As Paul Krugman said a while back, if you're figure show that people should be happier and they're not happy, then you're looking at the wrong figures.

folks won't applaud his C-minus on today's spelling quiz.

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(On Bush's complaint that media coverage of bad news from Iraq eclipses the "good news on the economy.")

to Dubya howl, isn't it?

economic news???

... was drowning out the GOOD news about Iraq.

Why am I so confused when everything coming out of Bush's mouth is so straightfoward?


:shrug:

It's all good. You haven't been listening :eyes:

... I'm so easily gas-lighted these days.

If only I got FOX-News here, I'm sure this all would make PERFECT sense.

What about job outsourcing and home foreclosures? Which good news about which is drowning out the other? Or has the great news from NOLA literally 'drowned out' the great news about everything else?

There I go, gettin' confused again ...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060505-1.html
President Visits Local Hardware Store, Discusses Strong U.S. Economy

he is....did you see this?:

"...They've got to make sure the supplemental comes to me at a rate that I'll accept, $92.2 billion, plus money for the pandemic flu...."

sounds like this flu is a done deal:(

All he wants the Federal government to do is stockpile worthless drugs. Tamiflu doesn't work on this strain of avian flu because the Chinese have been using it routinely in their chickens' drinking water. (Sort of like us creating super salmonella by feeding beef cattle antibiotics when they weren't sick.)

He sounds so desperate trying to push his pathetic story.

All dressed up in his suit to go buy Barney some chew toys at the hardware store. Hard to take all this in!

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighborly day for a beauty,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

So let's make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we're together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?

Won't you please,
Won't you please,
Please won't you be my neighbor?

Hi television neighbor, I'm glad we're together again....

I knew Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers was a friend of mine. George W. Bush is no Mr. Rogers.

."The problem is that we're in war, and sometimes it's hard for people to get a positive message about the economy when they're troubled by scenes of violence on the TV screens," the president said.
(snip/...)

What scenes of violence in Iraq would that be? and which network is showing them?

Hey chuckle-nuts - as long as you're in Iraq AND dumping billions in that sand trap - there is NO good economic news.

Like this!!!! :mad: :argh:

Weekly Jobless Claims Jump By 5,000 (to 322,000)

FOX News - May 4, 2006
(Reuters)

WASHINGTON — New claims for U.S. jobless aid unexpectedly rose by 5,000 last week, Labor Department data showed on Thursday, but remained at levels suggesting moderate jobs growth.

First-time claims for state unemployment insurance benefits advanced to 322,000 in the week ended April 29, the highest week of initial claims since a matching level in the week of November 19, and compared with an upwardly revised 317,000 the prior week.

Wall Street analysts polled by Reuters had expected new claims to fall to 310,000 last week from an initially reported 315,000 the previous week.

A Labor Department analyst said there were no special factors influencing last week's report. However, he noted that the timing of the Easter school spring break in different jurisdictions had brought some volatility to April data.

(more at link or for the un-edited version, click the bottom link)

<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194213,00.html>

I don't like to link to Fox"news", below is the same (un-edited) article at Reuters:

<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-05-04T123253Z_01_N03434230_RTRUKOC_0_US-ECONOMY-JOBLESS.xml>

Funny how he didn't talk much about this report

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1122711

Taking stock of your property -- on the financial market
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 5, 2006
... The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has created five new futures and options contracts designed to follow home prices in the same six cities, plus Boston, Denver ...

will be glad to know they can get a good deal on a box of nails. :grr:

... we're just supposed to keep watching 'reality' tv!

from gasoline prices. The article is on DU today.

wonder how it feels to be shipped off to Iraq to die by the class dunce...

Stupid bastard gets no sympathy from me. It's his fault thousand of Americans have died over there, many more terribly crippled for life. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died. So sad that so many people had to die for this stupid little man and his neo-con pal's desires to dominate the world. :(

same words and everything, except I was going to addthe word "Duh!" ('cause I'm in a house full of teenagers who use that word in every sentence).

Heheheh. I like "Duh!", but my subject title barely fit as it is. Doh! :)

I wonder how the families and friends of the DEAD AND INJURED TROOPS and the INNOCENT IRAQI VICTIMS feel about such a sickening statement????????

--that cowardly piece of dog sh*t would NEVER just "drop in" anywhere where We The People might be. Especially a hardware store!! Rakes, hammers, blowtorches, nailguns -- catch my drift? It is out of the realm of statistical possibility that so many *-friendly people would just "happen" to be in the store as are pictured.

It would be quite a reasonable assumption.

the only people feeling the good economy would be the people you like to call your base.

What kind of crack is this asshole smoking?

What an idiot.

What a cry baby.

By the way was he referring to $3 gas? That good economic news? Or the $400,000,000 retirement package for the CEO of Exxon? That good news?

Oh, and I thought it was all good news from Iraq. Make up your mind which lie you are telling and stick with it Dunce Boy.

What did we do to deserve such morans for leaders?

When did that happen? Two minutes before midnight last night? First I've heard about it.

Good ecomony for those top 1% of the wealthiest citizens, perhaps. BAD economy for everyone else, methinks.

With gas surpassing $3 in most parts of the country, and Halliburton making trillions off a war that was started on lies and profiteering, yeah, I guess we could say the economy was booming--for them, not us.

And then we can't forget the millions being funneled into George's and Dickhead's pockets, from companies like the Carlyle Group and Halliburton, a company that still pays millions to Cheney, and all the under the table bribes from Saudi Arabia and other middle eastern countries in whose pocket George has his hand. I'll bet for every $100,000 or so, George's cut is at least 10% deposited in a bank account either in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland.

Bush is using Enron accounting.

Here are the real figures:

inflation: 8%
annual budget deficit: $706 billion
unemployment: 7.6%

Compare with Bush's fake data:

inflation: 3.4%
annual budget deficit: $423 billion
unemployment: 4.7%

http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=84520§ion=commentary

realistic from what I've seen and heard.

It's become such a matter of near religious belief that GHWB's breaking his "read my lips" promise was what did him in. I'm sure it didn't help, but the larger context of that is that he appeared clueless about the real economic facts. He went around saying things were not so bad when in fact, people were struggling and even more people had reason to worry.

All that pales in comparison to today's world, when unemployment isn't even the greatest fear. It's whole industries moving away from us and being replace with nothing that's terrifying. The middle class is living in a constant state of tension. Even if you're employed you can't be sure you're going to be able to have health insurance. Housing costs a tremendous burden in so many areas of the country. With the creative financing that fueled the housing bubble, foreclosures have started to rise already. And the price of fuel, which affects everything. Well, you all know all that. But going around and telling us things are good - that's just monumentally stupid.

Unless you have a booming stock portfolio or happen to be the retiring CEO of a gas company, life is a struggle. And who, for one second, thinks he'll allow Barney to eat a biscuit from the commoner's hardware store?

That was my Blog headline for this story...

http://thesyndrome.com

I thought Dear Leader was screeching about how the news from Iraq was GOOD News...turning another corner and all that.

And, "troubled by scenes of violence on the TV screens,"?? Really?? Which TV screen would that be on, Your Chimpness? That MFer doesn't understand that "we the people" aren't allowed to see any scenes of violence in Iraq.

Major combat operations are over, dont'cha know..

I so loathe that little POS. Shit is the only thing I can compare him to. I've searched in vain for some loathsome animal that would serve the purpose, but in all cases, I've determined it would be an affront to the animal in question.

edit> to add, "that would serve the purpose".

Just 2 days ago, he was besides himself with joy over Iraq: finally we've fixed it. It's OK now, everything's wonderful.

OF COURSE....there was a little bad news in between......like a heli crash in Afghanistan, another one in Iraq, a car bomb this morning, and let's see what else?

For God's sake, how many sides does his mouth have?

by higher debt, by costs rising disporportionally to income. No, the problem is that the news on Iraq is so... (bad - say it George), that they can't 'hear' the good news about the economy.

Iow, according to W, folks shouldn't believe their personal living experience of the economy - just his proclamations of how good the economy really is, and the problem is that his proclamations aren't getting coverage because the media - instead - focuses on Iraq.

What an arrogant, contemptuous of the public, *ss.

Not generally from Iraq Mr.Bush. You and yours have effectively bought, bullied or marginalized the media to not comment on your policies and practices. So we don't really see much about Iraq on TV. No, it's something else.
How about the fact there are a great many people who don't pay attention to politics (the ones who continue to support you) who have a vague and uneasy feeling something is wrong.
They can't put their finger on it, but they know that the ecomony is not really booming. Not with jobs being sent offshore, the falling share of the car market in Detroit, the high rate of home foreclosures.
Some of the ones who support you are awakening to the fact you have looted the treasury via a phony war, made millions of dollars on the backs of the middle class and poor and, like nearly every one of your contemporaries in D.C., are the product of the elite and priveleged class. You have absolutely nothing in common with the average American aside from living in the country.
Mr.Bush, your numbers are falling to where they should have been all along. The reason is not because we are not hearing 'good' news. The reasons are you have no plan,no idea, no intention of doing anything other than what benefits you and yours.

edited due to fat fingers during typing!

:grr:

he's just teaching us to fish wo we don't get hungry, get it?

little disposable income they have on increasing gas and other energy-related costs. I'm trying to figure out where the good news is in that, though.

How can a murderer say that we should appreciate what he has no control over, but tells us we shouldn't worry about the deaths we hear about every day - of which he has total control - he could withdraw troops tomorrow if he wanted to.

Please criticize me for calling Bushco evil :eyes:

... he is running as a Dem. for state senate in Pennsylvania. When I hear Dubya say that, I want to sit down and cry ... or scream EFF YOU at the White House gate.

(Here he is, receiving his purple heart from Congressman Murtha -- you can see the non-proflexed version of the photo on the Web site)



http://www.jasonleiseyforstatesenate.com/

:grr:

mister so-called president?

"Shit! We can't drown out the Iraq disaster with economic mumbojumbo. Get me the Ministry of Truth!"

There is little positive about the economy except for CEO pay, which is being manipulated via offshoring and offpeopling.

Replace $30/hr workers with $2/hr workers and to those people, it is a boom. (To them.)

Unfortunately, that's a short-term tactic and a cheat.

Nevermind that one would think the average exec pay being ~500x that of the average worker isn't enough already; with offshoring the number would skyrocket considerably.

In the long term, it will catch up. When you can't afford to buy the products you make...

Which is why the trend is worsening. A weakening dollar means they have to continue.

After all, your precious Bill Gates has about 39,253,066,920.31. Before you barf at me, he converted his wealth to the Euro in January 2005 then openly proceeded to denounce the dollar (there's a patriot for ya, folks :sarcasm: ). In Dollars, it's $50 bil. and he's expecting the next financial quarter to be really slow. (so either the crash is near, or they're setting things up so they can tell the world how great they still are in the fiscal quarter after that one!) Never mind the fact he not only offshores, he's been getting horny over cajoling the Chinese to buy his products. Which is a bit of a shame, really. China's piracy rate is close to 90% (source Cnet Asia, July 2004). If they're not buying now, what makes that guy think they'll start now? (raise the wages he pays 'em?!)

No economy, no pretty picture of any kind is going to replace the culpability of this weird little jerks actions. No word out of his mouth can be trusted, not one. He is a lying creep of an awol bastard who deserves death penalties for his stupendously stupid action. Attacking Iraq was the act of a bully, a petulant little coward who understands nothing of the god he so loudly proclaims.
Unfortunately he represents america to most of the world. Stupid little prick makes me so damn mad I'm spitting coffee on my monitor. Jebus, what a fucking whack job. When will "we" as a group of human beings get together and stop this nonsense.
Male PMS. sorry.

Bush said he had

"been spending a lot of time on the economy" in his public pronouncements, to little avail.

Yeah, (Bush says) all you unemployed people who can't find jobs -- it's all in your imagination that the economy's bad. </sarcasm>

I'm getting a C in gym.

...the while, the average people wear "normal" shopping clothes. Gee... Ain't that make him look like a filthy rich Marie-Antoinette, or what? A little King George? Whoops! That's exactly what he is: a Marie-Antoinette like little King George ("Who cares what they think!")...

Wait... The economy (for "his" Marie-Antoinette's top 1%) is so good the Feds stopped publishing all M3 reports a few months ago...

Now I'm sure he's mad at Cheney for encouraging him to lie in order to start that damn war (Herr CheneY ourself must have told him it was only gonna last six weeks and that he would be praised the Best pResident in history forever after!!). HA! (and there's NO violent pictures of it on TV... If so, WHERE?? Does that little Marie-Antoinette like King George watch TV like he reads newspapers?!?).

Talk about being totally disconnected from all average "We The People" hey? :puke:

Sure Mu$t Be 'Cuz The Economy I$ GOOD That All Marie-Antoinette$ Suddenlly R Rushing To $ecure A$ Much A$ They Can THAT Quickly Like Their Parent$ Did Just Before The Great Depre$$ion...

Ummm... The Liar In Chief Said: "The Economy I$ Good!"

"Get U$ A$ Much Gold A$ You Can Find!" (Say The Marie-Antoinette$ To Their Broker$...")

Me Wonders Why?? (If It'$ "REALLY" % "Truly"... $ohohoho Goooooood...) :crazy:

The stock market/"economy" is being carried on the backs of us all..

on the basic soundness of our economy. For instance, if we didn't have all the jobs created by the baseless Iraq war (defense contract hiring and extra military personnel), exactly what would the outlook be?