ouch! anyone else's wallet in pain?

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Originally Posted by windinthewillow

It does did have to do with hurricanes (Katrina, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job".) Katrina was mismanaged. FEMA awarded about $3.6 billion worth of contracts to companies with crappy credit histories. A Homeland audit found a screwed up bidding process, many of those contracts were awarded to companies who bid unreasonably high.

He put us in a war where there were no weapons of mass destruction. Remember this quote from Bush? "Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." The ultimate cost of the war is estimated to top 3 trillion dollars. For what?

Yes, irresponsible lenders. Then why did Bush bail them out for $80 billion?


In the year 2000, the federal budget surplus was $230 billion dollars. As of today, the deficit is $9,411,116,201,914.

When Bush took office, oil was $24 a barrel. It's now $138 a barrel.

Yes, it was Bushy Boy.

On Katrina- Yeah, it was all FEMA. God forbid we place any blame on a NATURAL DISASTER or the people who didn't leave. FEMA had nothing to do with the cost of the storm's destruction, unless they have the ability to steer hurricanes.

He put us in the Iraq war, where we didn't find the WMD we thought we would. You can also blame the Senate Intelligence Committee, Australia, England, Israel, the UN, and IRAQ. But then, it is much more convenient to blame Bush. It is also convenient to ignore the strides our military is making, and the fact that the Iraq war has played a large role in AQ's decline (this according to the CIA last week).

I agree on the bailouts, what does that have to do with Bush and the mortgage meltdown? Unless I'm in an alternate reality, bailouts did not cause the reason for the bailouts (the subprime meltdown).

Yeah, the debt. Guess where it came from? See original post (you know, all that stuff you've failed to respond to).

On oil- You're right, Bush is at fault. It isn't, once again, ALL THOSE THINGS LISTED ABOVE. The President, God bless him, controls the price of oil. Not refinery problems, or India, or China, or those who control the supply of oil. Nope. Just Bush. And to think his party wants to drill for our own oil, here, in the US! How outrageous!