The Republicans are going on the warpath today with the “give to us and help us win this year so we can repeal health care”. How? How can they come up with enough votes to repeal health care. This wouldn’t be a simple “oh we got a majority and we repeal it”. It would take […]
The last decade is by no doubt the Bush decade since he held office for 4/5 of it, so the fact that we had zero net job creating during the decade should really stick to his legacy. To put it in visual terms, check out this graph: You can only blame 9/11 for so much […]
The last week of the Bush legacy gave us a new record: The number of people remaining on the benefits roll after drawing an initial week of aid, or continued claims, rose 159,000 to a higher-than-forecast 4.776 million in the week ended Jan 17, the most recent week for which data is available. The Labor […]
Bush’s legacy keeps on building: The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 7.2 percent in December, the highest level in 16 years, as nervous employers slashed 524,000 jobs, capping one of the worst years in modern history for American workers. But those are just the unemployed. Let’s not forget those who are still working, but have […]
Ouch: Shares of General Motors Corp. plunged Wednesday to their lowest level since September 1954, as investors shrugged off better-than-expected June sales and analysts raised concerns about the company’s cash needs. George Bush’s legacy continues.
This is the kind of military George Bush has created: The Pentagon on Friday insisted it is ready to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear attack inside the United States, rejecting an independent panel’s criticism of its preparations. But the Pentagon conceded it is not yet satisfied with its plans to respond to some […]
Or “Bush’s Legacy”. The House Democrats have put out a chart comparing the economy between today and 1/20/01, when Bush took over. The entire chart is very interesting, but there is one section that really caught my eye. Look at those numbers and think about them (click the image to see the larger/full chart). Americans […]
Things are getting worse. Major banks and mortgage companies yesterday sharply accelerated an industry consolidation that is set to change the landscape of American lending, while a convergence of events exposed fresh worries about the U.S. economy. New indications emerged yesterday that the spiraling subprime mortgage crisis is spreading from home loans to credit cards, […]