Bush says the economy is bad because they built too many houses
By John Amato Monday Feb 18, 2008 9:00am
Bush and Laura were on the TODAY Show and interviewed by a fawning Ann Curry yesterday in Africa that I didn't get a chance to post. When she asked George just how bad Americans feel over the economy, Bush gave us this insanity:
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Bush: ...and I'm convinced fifty years from now people will look back and say, Thank God there were those that were willing to sacrifice.
Curry: But you're saying you're going to have to carry that burden. Some Americans believe that they feel they’re carrying the burden because of this economy.
Bush: Yeah, well…
Curry: They say we’re suffering because of this.
Bush: I don’t agree with that.
Curry: You don’t agree with that? It has nothing do with the economy, the war, the spending on the war?
Bush: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs.
Curry: Oh, yeah?
Bush: Yeah, because we’re buying equipment, and people are working. I think this economy is down because we built too many houses (Curry: hmmmmm) and the economy is adjusting. On the other hand we're just about to kick out 157 billion dollars to our taxpayers......what would have been had we abandoned Iraq when times were tough and let those soldiers die in vain..
How ignorant can this man act on teevee about important issues. Curry had praised Bush a few seconds earlier for his "doing God's work," because of his work in Africa. And he feels so awful about the war in Iraq. Here's a follow up question Curry could have asked. "Were you doing God's work when you invaded Iraq under false pretenses?
Our troops were ordered to go to Iraq. They weren't asked if they wanted to go. What's worse is to have ordered them there in the first place and then after years of chaos, still let them die in vain. How about including all the innocent Iraqis that have fallen. He never does seem to mention them, does he?
Now, about his reasoning for our economic woes. War spending does create a certain number of jobs, but...sorry....I--can't--respond--to that drivel. You know I never curse on the site, but was I ever close. What about the predatory mortgage lending practices? What about the record number of foreclosures? We built too many damn houses is your response?
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Thank GOD for the military-industrial complex...or there'd BE no Murica!!
Thank you George...thank you, thank you, thank you.
We need to bomb the bejesus out of EVERYONE...that will increase the demand for more bombs!! And...we get the benefit of bringing freedom to the pulverized masses! It's win-win!
Oh, thank you George. THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Four more years! Four more years!!
Herr dubyah bragged for months and months that his "strong economy" was responsible for so many people owning homes. Remember how he use to brag that more minorities owned homes than any other time in history? He's not even good at lying any longer.
Bush is clueless about our country and his role in the declining status of our country..
In other news, Water is wet, the sky is blue and the year is 2008.
I'm really in a quandry. Does someone actually WRITE this crap...or does this incredible moron just make this shit up as he goes?
I can't even LOOK at this putz anymore.
Ugggh. The freakin' President of the United States. The LEADER of the free world.
Sonofabitch...every time this jackass speaks...WE look like a country of morons.
This guy has the nerve to blame our woes on building too many houses, only years after telling us we should all be homeowners?!
Will the msm ask McBain if he agrees with bush on this? Since McBain has taken on the bush mantra, I think he should be asked if he agrees with the shrub, that the reason the country is in the dumper, is because we built to many house's.
"On the other hand we’re just about to kick out 157 billion dollars to our taxpayers……what would have been had we abandoned Iraq when times were tough and let those soldiers die in vain.."
Can someone translate that quote for me? What the hell is he saying?
Yep, we just built too many houses. That's the only problem? What an idiot.
John, I know about your cursing rule and the fact that you could post this without a single curse word earns you my highest admiration. How the hell did you do it with out throwing in at least one "fu*k"?
I really do think bush is legally in-fu*king-sane!
LOL
Good Lord...just SHOOT ME!! I can't take too much more of this pure, unmitigated, unpasteurized, unhomogenized BULLLLLLSHITTTT!!
All of God's work is under false pretenses.
So let me get this right George.
On the economy: more homes for people = bad; war, killing = good.
Did I miss something?
Hold it George . You were the one that encouraged American to go shopping. So that 's what they did. They went and bought houses . I wonder how Bush manages his personal finances? The federal debt will have double between Jan. 2001 and Jan. 2009. No wonder the Iraq War is a screw up.
When George speaks...brain cells die.
Goll darnnit! I done put six hundert quarters in this slot machine! I cain't quit now!
Liberal AND Proud @ 14:
Thanks, that was funny. Sad but true.
Idiot Winds
blowing every time you move your mouth
what would have been had we abandoned Iraq when times were tough and let those soldiers die in vain
So just what has to happen for them not to have "died in vain"? When the nation of Iraq becomes a Christian nation or when the oil fields are in control of the Bush-Cheney oil barons?
They say god works in mysterious ways. Okay this is the most mysterious yet. Any god worth his or her salt wouldn't have the time of day for this nitwit.
I do remember hearing him time after time brag about there being more homeowners here in the US than ever before. He failed to mention it was because he was looking the other way as criminals were involved in that endeavor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdly_xKwEc#GU5U2spHI_4
My final Marcus video. Watch as the world's creepiest neocon describes what America would look like with Obama in power.
This is the most inane, ridiculous and overt blame-shifting yet to date. Where is this man's personal integrity and accountability as our "public servant"? He obviously mistakes himself for an Emperor. Hah! He's a national and international joke!
Clevenative @ 18:
The oil fields are already in control of the oil barons.
> I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs... because we’re buying equipment, and people are working
But that's the Broken Window Fallacy (not to be confused with the Broken Window Effect). If he's saying the Iraq war budget is actually a stimulus package, then that makes him more of a liberal than FDR!
With apologies to Rob Reiner...
"God created the heavens and earth in six days and rested on the 7th. On the day that he created George Bush, couldn't he have rested on that day too."
Well, he's partially right. Without the massive military spending, the unemployment figures would be higher. Take that spending out of the equation, and realistically look at where it would have been spent without Iraq, and the US would be in a massive recession. It's a sad reality, but reality nonetheless.
Mother.Fucker!
Clevenative @ 18:
He's the poster child for the adage - there's no fool like an old fool. He opens mouth and inserts both feet every time. He brags about homeownership at an all time high and, as you say, doesn't complete the sentence about his aiding and abetting the criminal behavior involved in the sub-prime crisis. He's in everything wrong with this country up to his ying yang. The people will parade in the streets when either he leaves office for good or is impeached. He is, without a shred of a doubt, the most disgusting excuse for a president ever in the history of this country. He's one sick puppy.
Laura is frantically signalling with eye-blinks for the American people to rescue her from her idiot husband.
ConcernedCanuck @ 25:
Putting the untold billion$ pissed away on Iraq towards restoring this nation's roads & bridges, shoring up social security and passing meaningful healthcare reform would have helped this economy immeasurably more!
Clevenative @ 18:
Sorry, Clevanative - my prior comment was meant for pissed off patricia.
This "died in vain" theory is all rubbish. Two wrongs never made a right and, from the outset, this war was based on lies and bull. So if our military died for anything, they gave their lives, thanks to lies and bullcrap by individuals in power with a vested interest in greed. With the Bush crime cabal, it's all about "appearances" - how something looks. There's never been any credibility or logic in anything they've done in 7 years. It's always been about lining their personal pockets with gold while accumulating the blood of now 4,000 of our fallen patriots on each of their hands. They say 'karma is a biotch' - these criminals will get to see how ugly it is firsthand.
Three words: Cut the Microphone!
Okay, here's three more: What an AssHat!
Dr. Acula @ 29:
They're kicking $$$157 billion to taxpayers --- isn't THAT money borrowed? Sometimes I feel like dear leader is just playing a giant game of Monopoly and has upturned the board because he is losing.
Would someone in a profession that does IQ tests please rate this video & tell me what it scores?
pissed off patricia @ 8:
He's confused... he can't keep all the talking points straight and he jammed them together.
Of course Bush doesn't think that people are hurting. All his rich buddies aren't complaining. Blackwater is making plenty of money. Exxon/Mobil is reporting record profits which means Cheney and Bush are making money and besides, the tax payers are footing the bills for all his trips and health insurance and food etc... Bush might as well have said "let them eat cake". What an idiot.
veritas @ 32:
Bribing the shieks to "not fight" to the tune of over 1 million a week is far more insidious and evil than actually admitting that the surge is total bullshit. Of this we can be certain, when given the choice to take the high road versus taking the low road, Chimpy will always opt on the side of darkness. He's done it every time. Putting the money into that infrastructure which we handily destroyed and which we "promised" to pay for (remember Powell's words: You break it/you bought it?) would be far too altruistic and honest a thing to do for this criminal.
Dr. Acula @ 29:
They could have given every family in America enuf money for a college education for every child in America...and had enuf left over for every orphan.
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
uhm, well... more houses means a drop in house prices.... usually buying a house is a safe investment because the population will always grow and more houses will always be needed, and people are always looking to get a better house. It happened in Toronto, a bunch of condos went up and buying a condo now is a bit cheaper. I guess its bad for the economy cause people who were looking to sell are in a bad spot. I suspect they are stuck with it, and won't have that spending money. It will eventually catch up as the population grows, i suppose. i'm not an economist or anything. but that seems to make sense to me.... i don't doubt there are other issues, but from what i know about the iraq debt is that its only a very small fraction of the total US debt. the US would be in the current situation had it not invaded iraq....
While it is historical that the reslugs managed to get a barely functional mentally handicapped man with the IQ of a stone elected I still think it was probably the wrong thing to do. For everyone else. It benefited them greatly since they can pretty much do whatever they want so long as shrub's got a full bowl of pretzels and his ronnie raygun western's collection on dvd.
LibertyLover @ 33:
The tax refund is being financed by the evil, communists in China. They are holding a promissory note from your children, grand children and great grandchildren.
Liberal AND Proud @ 5:
Dude. We are a country of Morons. How else does one explain the popularity of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, NASCAR and Will Ferrell movies?
LibertyLover @ 33:
Bush Payola, nothing more! It's his way of paying off the people to shut them up and keep his sorry butt out of prison when he leaves office. Won't work because even the average american's intelligence places him heads and shoulders above the level of this obvious sicko.
Bush: "But I want to get back to the Iraq War"
ROFL!!! We built too many houses!!!! ROFL!!!!
This man has to be insane. There is no way a rational person could explain our economy this way. I can't wait until he's gone.
JohnnyThief @ 34:
I ran a test and got an error reading on the screen, then the machine burst into flames and evaporated.
Sometimes I just simply want to scream.
And while Bush is saying these words, how many Faux News-watching dittoheads are there out there who are nodding along in agreement with him? "Wow, that's really simple. We built too many houses!"
Over and over and over again, Bush shows us just how INCOMPETENT he is. This is why we simply cannot elect another Republican to the presidency. We need someone who lives in the reality-based world and takes his advice from real economists, not just his partisan spindoctors.
What will this man do when his bubble is burst?
Vickif @ 46:
I think it's call "dry drunk".
We know what an ass he is!!! Want to know about her? Do a google search - type in Laura Bush and see what Miss Pris was doing in Midland, Texas - She is an ass, too!!
FOX is State Sponsored TV @ 45:
Put the gun in George's hand...I'll fly him there personally!!!!
That's the patent "No houses? No housing market crisis" logic.
There would not be so many crooked lenders if there weren't so many dang houses!
ConcernedCanuck @ 25:
That's a bunch of bull...
The bulk of the money is going to private contractors and private industries, not to manufacturing military goods to support the troops. If that was false then there wouldn't have been the need for private individuals to raise money for helmet liners to help prevent brain injury to our fine men and women fighting over there. Why is the military having to go through junkyards looking for scrap metal to add additional plating to the Humvees? Why is the military billing soldiers and their families for expenses?
If Congress decided to grow some balls and pull the funding from private contractors, we'll be out of Iraq pretty damn quick.
He forgot to mention another boom to the economy as the results of this war. Almost four thousand more caskets were made and sold. Then there's the flag industry, almost four thousand more of those too. If he wants to be a vulture, he should pick all the bones clean.
This guy must have been born on the defensive. He accepts not one bit of responsibility for what he's done to our country. I thought this fu*king war was about American safety and all that crap. Now it turns out that it was good for our economy? How's that economy working out for everyone visiting Crooks and Liars?
Remember, if you are old enough, how you felt when Nixon boarded that helicopter for the last time and waved good-bye? Imagine how you're going to feel when it's bush's turn. I think there will be a cheer heard around the world.....really, all around the world.
Jonathon @ 48:
He'll call his Daddy to make it all better.
Clearly killing people in an unjust war is good for the economy. It's the "redneck fratboy" theory of economics. We must imprison this pig.
Remember: destruction is good for the economy! Construction is bad.
What a twit!
Thomas Stone @ 12:
"Is our soldier's killin?"
---GWB.
Isn't it time to elect a President who doesn't have an invisible imaginary friend?
lost_nacf_gop @ 43:
The Presidency of George W. Botch: The Era of Dumb
When this obviously mentally challenged individual was lifted to the highest office in the country, the Dumbing Down of America began. How could anyone vote for someone who looked like a total moron during all of his debates? The answer is: They didn't! The Electronic Voting Machines elected him into office - first time it was Katherine Harris in bed with Bro Jebbie and their "hanging chads" in Florida; next time it was Ken Blackwell, State SOS, State of Ohio (and coincidentally Co-Chair of Bush/Cheney '04) who brought this era we wish to forget into existence. Thank these people for where we are right now. It never was the people who put this moron into office in the first place.
Well I don't know about you, but I never trust a cowboy who always likes to cross his legs.
GW: “…and I’m convinced fifty years from now people will look back and say, Thank God there were those that were willing to sacrifice.”
I think he means “Thank God there were those that were willing to be sacrificed”. Too bad Bush looks at the word “sacrifice” (and our soldiers) in the biblical sense – like sheep at the altar.
GW hasn’t had the balls to lead this nation as a great wartime leader should - to ask the American people to make personal sacrifices as an act of patriotism in support of war costs – or place restrictions on the planet-raping corporations, has all been the farthest thing from his mind. In fact he has promoted quite the opposite. Face it George, in reallity, fifty years from now people will look back at you as the worst “wartime” president in the history of our nation.
No more years! No more years!
3.5 million homeless Americans, (1.35 million children) and George Bush tells us that America's problem is that the nation is building too many houses?
This must come from the philosophical school that declares, "hit me again, it feels good when you stop."
I didn't watch that interview. I never watch anymore of his TV appearance. it's useless and crappy, because there is nothing new or intelligent useful thing he has to offer the American public. He's a waste of time, he's just going to defend his dumb ass policy that never benefit anyone except his own. I felt that they are a waste of space every time chimpy and his useless freeloading bitch of a frist lady appears on TV. Why don't they just lock themselves up in the white house and wait for the moving truck to pick them up. I think he said he's responsible for his mistakes. Well he has numerous. The only way he can save his legacy (if there's anything left of it) is not to do anything at all.
veritas @ 60:
I agree to a point...but that's too easy. In so-called third world nations...the people are smart enuf to know when an election is stolen...and they RIOT, they PICKET, they SCREAM.
So...we're right back to "we are complacent MORONS".
lost_nacf_gop @ 43:
Hey!!! There's nothing wrong with Will Ferrell movies. However, I can't say the same for movies with Pauly Shore or Larry the Cable Guy.
ConcernedCanuck @ 25:
A true statement, but especially sad considering the mission hasn't been planned and managed well. So many lives lost and so much money spent, with pathetically little to show for it so far.
January 20, 2009 cannot come soon enough.
Can we pass a law and require each person that wants to run for president to pass an intelligence test before they can be elected? This man is an idiot beyond belief.
Without the "lucky sperm club", he would be at the bottom of the economic caste.
douche bag sez what ??
JohnnyThief @ 34:
A first in IQ testing history ...
a NEGATIVE score !!!!!
Scientists are puzzled, but independent confirmation has been achieved.
I'm glad to see that Laura left her "I'm with Stupid" T-shirt back at the hotel.
Although her posture and expression speak VOLUMES.
Dr. Acula @ 29:
Yes it would. Think it would have been spent on that? I don't either.
The media should just collectively say, "Alright this guy doesn't even have our answers. Let's stop talking to the President and call up the experts. America, President's opinion is null and void."
Instead, these corporate slaves never question Bush and as a result his ridiculous statements are transmitted as unchallenged fact. This is why our country can hate Bush but do nothing about it... part of us still believes the mainstream media is always true. Brilliant propoganda by the Neo-Cons, terrifyingly brilliant. The future ahead continues to concern me...
-Frank
Alex C @ 23:
Wiki:
"Thus, the child did not bring any net benefit to the town. Instead, he made the town poorer by at least the value of one window, if not more."
The Bush Presidency in one sentence.
Bush Says.....
“On the other hand we’re just about to kick out 157 billion dollars to our taxpayers……what would have been had we abandoned Iraq when times were tough and let those soldiers die in vain..”
What is he saying?
"Curry: They say we’re suffering because of this.
Bush: I don’t agree with that."
of course the shrub is hiding from the recession on another continent while spewing this drivel.
diamondmc @ 22:
From Reuters yesterday – February 18, 2008… "Iraq oil law stalled, no end to impasse in sight"
ConcernedCanuck @ 25:
I concur, but you're only half-right. Part of the reason for the higher interest rates in the first place is because our government has borrowed so much money to finance deficit spending, i.e., when the demand for money increases because of heavy government borrowing, the cost of borrowing money increases. If we assume a balanced budget and not heavy deficit spending, however, interest rates would/should decrease accordingly due to the lesser demand for money by the federal government, and more money would theoretically be available for business to invest in capital, thus leading to REAL economic stimulus through the creation of new/better products and jobs, rather than the phony and unsustainable stimuli provided by wartime spending, an economic stimulus giveaway, and repeated artificial rate cut by the Federal Reserve despite heavy federal borrowing, even though the very real possibility of inflation looms right around the corner. The heavy military spending is only adding to the problem in the long run.
As an aside, this was really the high point of Clinton administration policy and why it's so important for us to get deficit spending under control again. The more money we borrow the more it costs us in the form of credit cards, car loans, home equity loans, student loans (before the last Congress fixed the rate of return), etc. The Clinton tax increases and the subsequent balancing of the budget were instrumental in bringing down the cost of borrowing money, which has real, tangible benefits to all Americans, especially those on the lower end of the economic ladder.
pissed off patricia @ 54:
At least impeachment was imminent with Tricky Dick and he had the balls to RESIGN! Busholini, being the petulant fucktard that he is, would never consider doing the right thing ever!!!
Chico @ 71:
But we wouldn't know because Bush's scientists would "censor" some of the findings and Pravda (FOX News) will spin it to make it look like having a negative IQ is actually a good thing. (That must be true... look who anchor's and have their own shows on that network).
John, please please please STOP doing this.
You are treating Bush as if he were something other than what you KNOW him to be - a CRIMINAL. Treat me that way. It is what he has earned and deserves.
He ISNT making a mistake or mispeaking. He is doing what the NEO-cons said they were going to do ... MAKE HISTORY and leave you to figure it out.
... war under false pretenses? You say. Condoleza Rice - the SECRETARY OF STATE - says otherwise. You want make your assertion stick, then you MUST discredit - and I mean discredit beyond a doubt - Rice.
Unless and until you treat this man as what he is, you will never do anything but comment after the fact. That is, eating the NEO-cons dust. Their tactic is working, sadly.
Impeachment, even without conviction - absent ALL Pelosian triangulations - would at least establish the proposition that Bush is a criminal. Until then all there is ... well, they win. There really isnt anything. People are too busy pointing out the silliness of a 'goofy' presnizt ... after the fact.
P.S.
Should you be surprised that Bush inclined to be a criminal? Who in his family hasnt been? Is he the 'white sheep' of the family?
What do you expect? All of the Flag Wavin', God Lovin', Waiting-to-have-a-Beer-With-Me, Numb nuts voted this guy in...a second time.
We get what we deserve.
DC @ 76:
That's almost exactly what I asked in comment #8
It seems like the beginning of one thought and the end of another, or something
Poppy's Spawn is the Worst Fucking President ever.
Yeah, you're Joe Kennedy, Poppy.
In your fucking dreams.
Thankfully, we're witnessing the extirpation of the Bush Political Seed.
ThunderMonkey @ 81: