President George W. Bush's Remarks On Tax Policy And Growth

fits you to a T.......

Housing crisis..............................


























Carter's fault

housing crisis did occur when Carter was President....mortgage rates were 18%, no one could afford a home.....

But...but....bu....the GOP war on women!?!?

Counterfactual.

Funny how no Liberals here can refute what President Bush had to say.

That just about sums it up - good luck in the fall defending the indefensible.

What about it?

And when Obama is re-elected this fall, Bush's teleprompter ramblings will mean nothing..

Maybe Carter should have put 5 million low income minorities in one .

You are insane.

But at this point, more likely you're just trolling, that's all you have left dummy.

Carter had no time for that, nobody could buy gas either....he was a colossal failure

Just thought I'd bring up the bogus distraction in case any Liberals were interested in shifting the focus off of Obama's economic failures.

Don't get too excited over supporting Mitt this fall.

Can you refute one assertion President Bush made in that clip?

Come on - you can do it. After all, it's insanity to assert that the focus needs to shift away from public sector growth and back to private sector growth, right?

Let's hear it.

Go.

Name one Liberal who proposed legislation allowing doctors to lie to their female patients, allowing employer's to fire women using birth control for sexual reasons, forcing women to go through unnecessary invasive procedures when seeking an abortion, a law that will force women that lose their pregnancy after 20 weeks to keep the dead fetus inside of them until their body births it out, repealed an anti-discrimination against women in the work force law. came out against pre natal testing, etc.

If it's such a "distraction", why are Conservatives introducing this nonsense in the first place?

Wasn't too excited about McCain's chances either.. What's your point? I'm not the hardcore Romney water carrier like yourself?

Obama will be re-elected... Deal with it..

Romney supporter

poor conflicted soul....

As if anyone would.

“Much of the public debate is about our balance sheet…or entitlements,” Bush said, but the solution in his view is to focus on private sector growth. ”The pie grows, the debt relative to the pie shrinks and with fiscal discipline you can solve your deficits,” Bush said.

Bush is not qualified to speak on reducing the debt, because the debt did not decrease during his 8 years in office, it went the other way, so any logical and clear thinking person would conclude his policies were a failure and unsustainable. And then he has the gall to say we must not tax the job creators, hey George, they are not being taxed now, where are the jobs? Oh yeah, you shipped 20 million jobs out of the country, maybe that's where they went and they just couldn't build Walmarts and McDonald's restaurants fast enough to create new jobs.

George Bush should shut the fuck up. His failed policies and lack of oversight caused our economy to crash into a bridge abutment.

“I don’t think it’s good for our country to undermine our president and I don’t intend to do so,” Bush said,

Good, than shut the fuck up and go back to Texas.

By Laura MacInnis
WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:44pm EST

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked Congress on Friday for power to consolidate agencies that promote U.S. exports, a move he cast as crucial to streamlining a sprawling bureaucracy struggling to meet the demands of a 21st century economy.

In proposing to close the Commerce Department and merge six trade and business agencies, Obama could help inoculate himself against Republican charges that he is a big-government liberal who has presided over one of the largest expansions of U.S. government in history.

Obama has launched a number of initiatives since late last year as part of a White House strategy to cast him as an activist president running for re-election in November against a "do-nothing" Congress as well as the eventual Republican presidential nominee.

The power Obama has requested would let him design changes that Congress could vote for or against, without revisions. The export plan was described by White House officials as a first step, with further consolidation likely to follow if Obama gets the authority he wants.

Ronald Reagan, an idol of conservative Republicans, was the last president who had authority to reorganize the government in the way Obama is seeking.

Analysts were skeptical that Republicans in Congress would approve Obama's request for expanded powers in an election year, although the initial Republican reaction appeared broadly positive.

"We hope the president isn't simply proposing new packaging for the same burdensome approach. However, eliminating duplicative programs and making the federal government more simple, streamlined, and business-friendly is always an idea worth exploring," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner.

Obama, in remarks at the White House, said the overhaul would make it easier for U.S. businesses to get help to export their goods, a key part of his economic agenda.

"With this authority, we'd help businesses grow, save businesses time and save taxpayer dollars," he said, outlining his request for powers to reorganize the federal government that Congress will need to consider within three months.

Obama wants to fold together the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and five other export bodies now spread across Washington into a new, yet-to-be-named department, giving businesses a single point of contact and trying to ensure that federal spending goes further to boost sales abroad.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - now part of Commerce - would be absorbed into the Department of the Interior under the plan, which also elevates the Small Business Administration to a cabinet-level post to underscore the White House's focus on smaller companies as an engine of job growth and recovery.

BUBBLES AND SALMON

A spokeswoman for Mitt Romney, the front-runner in the Republican presidential nomination race who has said he will make it a top priority to reduce the scale of government, cast Obama's move as an election year stunt.

"It's ironic that President Obama, who has grown government beyond belief for the past three years, is calling for consolidation of government. It is unfortunate that he is only doing so now to curry political favor in an election year," said spokeswoman Andrea Saul.

Seeking to illustrate how complex government bureaucracy had become, Obama unveiled a slide with a bubble diagram that showed a dizzying array of websites, toll-free numbers and customer service centers that were available to small business owners seeking advice on loans and how to export.

"It's a mess," Obama said, after noting his favorite example of the bureaucratic maze.

"As it turns out, the Interior Department is in charge of salmon in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them in saltwater," he said. "If you're wondering what the genesis of this was, apparently, it had something to do with President (Richard) Nixon being unhappy with his Interior Secretary for criticizing him about the Vietnam War. And so he decided not to put NOAA in what would have been a more sensible place."

With U.S. unemployment still high and the economy growing slowly, Obama is trying to boost U.S. trade ties with developing markets such as Asia as a way to spur output. He has set a goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years - from $1.57 trillion in 2009 to $3.14 trillion by 2015.

Trade experts said having one agency in charge of exports should help. "For the business community, engagement with overlapping agencies streamlined into a coherent process would be an advantage," said Nick Consonery of the Eurasia Group.

A White House official said the goal of streamlining the trade agencies was to save $3 billion over 10 years. It may also lead to the loss of 1,000 to 2,000 jobs through attrition, the official said.

Bush has alot of balls to come out of his hole after the putrid mess he left this country in to talk about growth and to hang his tax cuts around Romney's neck. Romney could very well lose based on his continuation of Bush tax cuts. Not surprised though, these rich guys have to stick together, they have to make sure their CEO buddies are still getting through the loopholes. Also where is the outrage about Bush using a teleprompter? isn't that what you tards bash Obama for every single day? Ironically Bush still sounds like a stuttering moron even with a teleprompter, there's your conservatard hero in the flesh guys.

MORE BREAKS FOR THE RICH - VOTE REPUBLICAN

Shit, I remember those gas lines.... What a nightmare. And those double digit interest rates. They were still high a few years after he left office. My student loans were 9% and that was "discounted"!!!

Shut up.. All of you. Who, if anyone one of you intellectuals, has a fucking real job here? I see EVERYDAY what this clowns policies are doing to the financial sector. I see the leverage gone, and people losing jobs, effects of Dodd Frank, Volker rule and other SEC requirements cause issues and the service firms who work in FS shrinking. Where are new jobs coming from in your liberal Utopias? Solar panels and scooters? Lol. Fucking dummies. Is this your view of " business". The fact is the financial, sell side and investment sectors have driven wealth and prosperity in this nation for decades, and the current administration is either too ignorant or spiteful to realize this, and seemingly want to dismantle it. They want to reward poverty and laziness and spank success and meritocracy. I personally can't wait for the day this unqualified, egomaniacal piece of shit is out of office, I just hope it's not too late when that happens.

Now, I got to go write out $55k in checks for taxes... How about you? Getting a refund and didn't pay a dime? Yeah, that's the recipe for success... Gotcha.