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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:40 AM
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Delusional bu$h optimistic about economy despite credit crunch and housing woes

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday cited "some unsettling times" in the U.S. housing and credit markets as he sought to assure jittery Americans that the economy basically is in good shape despite worries about a recession.

"I say that the fundamentals of our nation's economy are strong," Bush told a White House news conference.

Bush said that inflation is down, markets are steady, unemployment is relatively low, exports are up and corporate profits "seem to be strong."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20545872/

:wtf: :crazy:
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:43 AM
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1. His portfolio looks fine. So...
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 10:44 AM by Fridays Child
...who cares what you think? :nuke:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:44 AM
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2. Prosperity is Just Around Which Corner?
from 1932


Everywhere you go, everyone you meet,
All they talk about is this depression.
They blame it on the war, they blame it on Wall Street,
On politics and this administration.
For two years now we've been assured good times are on the way,
I wonder how much longer we must hear them talk this way?

Prosperity is just around the corner!
(What we'd like to know is which corner?
We've turned so many corners now we're dizzy.)
But still I'm positive we'll soon be busy!

Why I read in Monday's paper that 10,000 men were hired!
(Yes, but Tuesday they forgot to say 12,000 more were fired.)
Well, I insist that this land of ours is stable!
(Stable? sounds like horses to me!)

Prosperity is just around the corner!
(Did you say corner or coroner?)
Our credit is still strong, no one can doubt it!
(I guess my landlord don't know about it.)

I see the market is going up, now you can't call that a joke!
(I recollect one time before it went clear up in smoke.)
This slump is just mostly imagination!
(Yeah, well you just try to pay your grocery bill with that!)

Now everyone is sure that they could find the cure,
If they could be the one to run this nation.
They'd put a bill right through, and show us what to do,
To get the money back in circulation.
They say if we would spend our dough bad business soon will end
But they forgot to tell us where to get the dough to spend.

Propserity is just around the corner.
(Around the same corner with prohibition, I reckon.)
Why, can't you understand why I'm so cheery?
(Yes, just like I understand the Einstein theory.)
But look at all the bumper crops the farmers have to sell,
(And every time they get a crop the price goes plumb to ****.)
Well, every cloud still has a silver lining.
(But that don't line the pockets of your pants.)

Still, prosperity is just around the corner.
(And we still would like to know which corner.)
Our nation will go down in history's pages.
(We're going down all right, especially wages.)
Why our banks are full of money, now you have to say I'm right.
(Then we can get all we want if we just use dynamite.)
You should fill your mind with optimism.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:44 AM
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4. Behind the same corner where victory in Iraq lays...n/t
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:46 AM
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6. Sounds a lot like 2007
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:44 AM
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3. Corporate profits seem to be strong..
well, that settles it. Fuck all you people struggling to keep a roof over your heads, maintain your health and put food on the table. You don't exist.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 10:45 AM
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5. He forgot, "the dollar's in the toilet" and "I'm adding $1.42 billion in debt each and every day!"
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 11:34 AM
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7. Always a bad sign
when that clown Bush opens his mouth and mentions it.

Always watch out when he endorses something.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 11:36 AM
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8. Yeah and War is Peace, Up is Down etc.
:puke:
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