You know, George W. Bush has told so many lies during his two terms as President that his new ones can tend to overwhelm our memory of the old ones. So for the record, here’s a Classic Bush Lie from way back in term #1. Way back, even before the war in Iraq utterly trashed the federal budget, George W. Bush had already driven America into deficits from the surpluses of the Clinton Era. George W. Bush went around giving over a dozen speeches in which he recalled his promise to maintain a balanced budget unless one of three conditions arose: a war, an emergency or a recession. “Never did I dream we’d have a trifecta!” Bush would say, and his audience would laugh. But that little get-me-off-the-hook anecdote wasn’t true. Bush was on the record in the 2000 campaign saying that his plan to cut taxes would somehow preserve budget surpluses even in the event of a recession. Lie, lie, lie. Back in 2002, Bush was just getting started. Now the whole country is wading deep in untruth.
(Sources: Washington Post June 25 2002; Spinsanity May 12 2002)
yeah, i’ll bet American labor is laughing really heartily right about now. The very CURRENCY we have is now worth less. Most of the problems have come at the expense of eased restrictions as a result of Republican policy changes through their time owning the whole government process. THEN, WE VOTED FOR A CHANGE, and got more of the same aiding and abetting of all the mistakes with but a minor few corrections, attachments or improvements. In the meantime Cheney’s Halliburton is swimming in lucrative no-bid contracts and the oil companies are enjoying record profits (while still failing to clean up their oil spills, giving us a break at the pump, or thinking about the economic and environmental effects to which they’re contributing largely). Another part of the problem is the lobbying of corporations, which is also having a deleterious effect on the quality of life. Finally, the health care situation is economically unsustainable, not affordable for most Americans (or will be shortly), and still in the grip of the insurance industry (which, along with the financial sector, is experiencing meltdowns in value).