Did dot.com bust, 9/11,worst HURRICANE SEASONS happen and who's fault???

[Skylar]

What natural/man-made disaster caused the tax cuts that favored the rich, and the war of choice in Iraq?

Now that was all Bush, all the time. The tax cuts never paid for themselves, nor were meant to. They were ideological rather than economic.

And Iraq was a clusterfuck by any definition. We were fed a steaming pile of bullshyte on Iraq, with the Bush administration trying to insinuate a connection between Iraq and 911. And straight up misrepresenting the 'WMD' claims.

It was a horrendously and pointless loss of lives, treasure and reputation. And will probably go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever made by a US president.

 

[G.T.]

ppl don't forget.

they just don't give as big of an ulcer as you do

get some enrichment in your life dude

No the problem is idiots put this dick in office BECAUSE IDIOTS believed the BIASED MSM especially when you see these quotes and you tell me that the masses of people have been grossly misled about how GREAT Obama is and HOW BAD Bush was!

Evan Thomas Editor of NewsWeek's quotes Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --
Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.Newsweek's Evan Thomas: 'Our Job Is To Bash the President' | NewsBusters
OK.. BASH BUSH and ignorant readers like MOST uninformed people say YEA Bush BAD!!!!

..........But when it comes to Obama ... any bashing here???
COLOR="Blue"]I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God." [/COLOR]
Evan Thomas on Hardball, Newsweek?s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ?Sort of God? | NewsBusters

So there are a few people out there evidently as smart or smarter then I am to see the direct correlation between the vast majority of
uninformed people obviously you being one of them who bELIEVE hook line and sinker we lost in Vietnam, we lost in Iraq, and Bush spent like
a drunken sailor and Bush was an idiot ... all the while idiots like Thomas EDITOR OF NEWSWEEK and other totally biased people believe
Obama can walk on WATER!!! "sort of God"!!!

Do you believe Obama is "sort of God"?? I don't think so BUT you obviously think Bush was the fault,etc. Iraq was wrong even though we've
saved nearly 2 million children from starving.. you weren't in favor of getting rid of Saddam so he could starve these 2 million kids... you approve of that?

youre drooling

 

[Old Rocks]

What does the weather have to do with his post overall? It is about disasters that Bush had to contend with, natural and manmade.

He forgot one, though, the Chinese kidnapping our air force crew as well.

And the Iraq disaster, over a trillion there, going on 2 trillion with wounded and other Vets.

The Iraq war actually stimulated the economy. As illustrated that by ending the war it had very little effect on the deficit.

Ain't that wonderful! And it only cost us less than 5000 lives of our sons and daughters.

 

[depotoo]

What natural/man-made disaster caused the tax cuts that favored the rich, and the war of choice in Iraq?

Now that was all Bush, all the time. The tax cuts never paid for themselves, nor were meant to. They were ideological rather than economic.

And Iraq was a clusterfuck by any definition. We were fed a steaming pile of bullshyte on Iraq, with the Bush administration trying to insinuate a connection between Iraq and 911. And straight up misrepresenting the 'WMD' claims.

It was a horrendously and pointless loss of lives, treasure and reputation. And will probably go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever made by a US president.

No he didn't. He did try to draw parallels to what can happen, considering 9/11, the Cole bombing, the '93 tower attack, when rogue nations have a will to see harm come to the US. Something which the nation agreed with at the time, but due to politics of the worst kind, many soon forgot due to being fed lies, which they were successful with, to our nations detriment, at doing.

 

[TooTall]

What natural/man-made disaster caused the tax cuts that favored the rich, and the war of choice in Iraq?

Now that was all Bush, all the time. The tax cuts never paid for themselves, nor were meant to. They were ideological rather than economic.

And Iraq was a clusterfuck by any definition. We were fed a steaming pile of bullshyte on Iraq, with the Bush administration trying to insinuate a connection between Iraq and 911. And straight up misrepresenting the 'WMD' claims.

It was a horrendously and pointless loss of lives, treasure and reputation. And will probably go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever made by a US president.

Bush went to Congress and the UN and both agreed with him. It wasn't a blunder until Obama dropped the ball and couldn't be bothered to negotiate a status of forces agreement with the Iraq government.

If you must call it a blunder, it has to be a shared blunder with Congress and many leading Democrats. I have the names.

 

[healthmyths]

What natural/man-made disaster caused the tax cuts that favored the rich, and the war of choice in Iraq?

Now that was all Bush, all the time. The tax cuts never paid for themselves, nor were meant to. They were ideological rather than economic.

And Iraq was a clusterfuck by any definition. We were fed a steaming pile of bullshyte on Iraq, with the Bush administration trying to insinuate a connection between Iraq and 911. And straight up misrepresenting the 'WMD' claims.

It was a horrendously and pointless loss of lives, treasure and reputation. And will probably go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever made by a US president.

So you had NO problem with 144,000 children starving each year because SADDAM would NOT CERTIFY their WMDs were destroyed"?
Are you telling me as a leader YOU would have NO problem watching 144,000 kids die because the embargo on food was in affect but because you
wouldn't certify WMDs were destroyed?
Really what then would the indications be to any of these democrats if Saddam is by letting these kids starve HE DOES HAVE WMDs!
These Democrats BEFORE BUSH wanted Saddam removed! Clinton bombed Iraq more then any president.
So tell me finally when you sign an agreement don't you believe what you sign will be in affect?
Would you have NO problem with me as a neighbor signing an agreement I wouldn't throw bombs in your backyard. I sign the agreement KNOWING
full well that if I don't keep the agreement YOU have the right to throw bombs back!

This is what most of you idiots forget: It was called the 1991 CEASE FIRE agreed to by Saddam so that he wouldn't be removed by coalition troops in 1991!

Democrats THAT WANTED Iraq liberated!!!
"..deny Iraq the capacity to develop WMD".Bill Clinton,1998
"..most brutal dictators of Century", Biden,1998
"Iraq compliance with Resolution 687 becomes shell game"..Daschle 1998
"He will use those WMDs again,as he has ten times since 1983" ..Berger Clinton Ntl. Secur. Advr 1998
"posed by Iraq's refusal to end its WMD programs" Levin 1998
"Saddam has been engaged in development of WMDs which is a threat.."Pelosi 1998 WHERE'D SHE GET THIS INFORMATION BEFORE BUSH?
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building WMDS.."Albright 1999
"Saddam to refine delivery systems, that will threaten the US..."Graham 2001
"Saddam has ignored the mandate of the UN and is building WMDs and the means to deliver.." Levin 2002
"Iraq's search for WMDs ...will continue as long as Saddam's in power"..Gore 2002
"Saddam retains stockpiles of WMDS.."Byrd 2002
"..give President authority to use force..to disarm Saddam because an arsenal of WMDs..threat our security"..Kerry 2002
"..Unmistakable evidence Saddam developing nuclear weapons next 5 years.."Rockefeller 2002
"Violated over 11 years every UN resolution demanding disarming WMDs.."Waxman 2002
"He's given aid,comfort & sanctuary to al Qaeda members..and keep developing WMDs"..Hillary 2002
"Compelling evidence Saddam has WMDs production storage capacity.." Graham 2002
"Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003.

 

[KissMy]

Bush caused the both recessions, one of which was a great recession. There were no negative quarters during Clinton's term. The first negative GDP happened months after Bush took office. People were rioting over his stolen election, so he went & hid in Texas instead of doing his job. That likely caused the negative GDP. Clinton had no negative GDP from the dot com bust that happened a year earlier, because dot com actually produced next to nothing back then, they almost all were losing money, so there was little gain or loss to GDP from it.

Bush let the 9/11 attack on US happen. Bush administration claimed that "the C.I.A. had been fooled, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein." They were repeatedly told about the terrorist here in the US & crashing of hijacked planes into buildings & the FAA had been advising our biggest airports of this attack 6 months earlier. The CIA, FBI, NSA, FAA, Russia all warned bush about the 9/11 attack, but Bush flat out refused to stop Bin Laden's terrorist attack. Putin called & warned Bush the day before 9/11 the attack plan had been set in motion, but we took no precautions & Bush went to Florida.

Bush cut the levy budget causing New Orleans to flood. He also botched the rescue of our citizens. Natural disasters hit during Obama's watch & they have been handled very well. Huge ice storm power outages, tornados & hurricanes have not been an issue.

Bush caused huge deficits, recessions, inflation & job loss.

 

[BlindBoo]

What natural/man-made disaster caused the tax cuts that favored the rich, and the war of choice in Iraq?

Now that was all Bush, all the time. The tax cuts never paid for themselves, nor were meant to. They were ideological rather than economic.

And Iraq was a clusterfuck by any definition. We were fed a steaming pile of bullshyte on Iraq, with the Bush administration trying to insinuate a connection between Iraq and 911. And straight up misrepresenting the 'WMD' claims.

It was a horrendously and pointless loss of lives, treasure and reputation. And will probably go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever made by a US president.

Bush went to Congress and the UN and both agreed with him. It wasn't a blunder until Obama dropped the ball and couldn't be bothered to negotiate a status of forces agreement with the Iraq government.

If you must call it a blunder, it has to be a shared blunder with Congress and many leading Democrats. I have the names.

Congress made him the decider based on deliberately incomplete and inaccurate data. The UN agreed to give Iraq a final chance to allow inspectors complete access to verify their claims of being in compliance. The UN did not agree to military action. Claiming that they did is disingenuous.

 

[healthmyths]

I am always amazed at how quickly people forget history!

Many of you on this forum in 2001 when the anthrax attacks occurred and NO ONE knew where they were coming from, some thought Saddam... but you tell me honestly in the fall of 2001 right after 9/11 you didn't open any envelopes with just a little hesitation especially if you lived LIKE I did in florida where
Timeline: How The Anthrax Terror Unfolded : NPR
Oct. 4, 2001: Bob Stevens of American Media in Florida is hospitalized with inhalation anthrax.

Oct. 5, 2001: Stevens, 63, dies. It's the first anthrax death in the U.S. in 25 years.

Oct. 8, 2001: Anthrax is found in the Boca Raton, Fla., offices of American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer. The building is closed.

Oct. 9, 2001: More letters laced with anthrax are posted, and the FBI begins investigating the incidents.

Oct. 12, 2001: An NBC employee in New York City tests positive for anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 15, 2001: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) tells reporters anthrax was found in his office.

Oct. 16, 2001: The 7-month-old son of an ABC News freelance producer tests positive for anthrax poisoning. The baby developed a rash soon after visiting the network's Manhattan offices on Sept. 28.

Oct. 18, 2001: A CBS employee and a New Jersey postal worker test positive for anthrax poisoning.

The American Media Inc. building was quarantined for more than five years because of anthrax infection, and was cleared by federal health officials to reopen in 2007.i
The American Media Inc. building was quarantined for more than five years because of anthrax infection, and was cleared by federal health officials to reopen in 2007.

Steve Mitchell/AP
Oct. 23, 2001: Two postal workers from the Brentwood facility in Washington, D.C., are confirmed to have died from inhalation anthrax.

Oct. 26, 2001: A U.S. State Department mailroom staffer is hospitalized with anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 28, 2001: Another New Jersey postal employee tests positive for anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 30, 2001: A New Jersey patient becomes the 15th reported case of anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 31, 2001: Kathy Nguyen, an employee of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, dies from inhalation anthrax.

Nov. 21, 2001: Ottilie Lundgren, 94, of Connecticut, becomes the fifth person to die from inhalation anthrax.

June 25, 2002: FBI agents search the residence of Steven Hatfill, a scientist who worked in the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md.

The Justice Department released photos on Oct. 16, 2001, of envelopes that contained anthrax, including this one sent to Sen. Leahyi
T
Rick Bowmer/AP
Aug. 2002: Hatfill is named a "person of interest" by law enforcement officials.

Dec. 2003: The Brentwood postal facility reopens in Washington, D.C., after more than $130 million worth of renovation and cleanup.

July 13, 2004: The New York Times is sued by Hatfill for defamation. He also sues the Justice Department.

Jan. 12, 2007: A federal judge dismisses Hatfill's libel suit against The New York Times.

June 27, 2008: Hatfill receives a $5.8 million settlement in his suit against the government.

July 29, 2008: Bruce E. Ivins, another government scientist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, commits suicide.

Sept. 17, 2008: FBI Director Robert Mueller tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI will seek an independent review of the scientific evidence of the anthrax case "because of the importance of the science to this particular case and perhaps cases in the future."


AND yet you idiots forget this happened immediately after 9/11!! Why are you forgetting it??

 

[deltex1]

Would someone tell me what other Presidency had any events of these magnitude happen:

1) THE RECESSION that started declining in 2000 and was officially started in 3/2001
Contributed to businesses letting people go...i.e. contributed to UNEMPLOYMENT!!!

2) There was a dot.com bubble bust in that cost $5 trillion in losses.. 300,000 jobs skilled technology workers were out of jobs
$5 trillion in losses created lower tax revenue..
SOURCE:The dot-com bubble: How to lose $5 trillion ? Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs

3) A minor event --- 9/11!
a) 800,000 jobs lost directly in travel/transportation businesses due to closures which means UNEMPLOYMENT!!!
b) $1 trillion in assets lost destroyed... thus reducing tax revenue!
SOURCE:The Top 10 Financial Events of the Decade

4) What kind of weather events equal to these:
SOURCE: Kiplinger - Interstitial
10. Hurricane Rita 2005
8. Hurricane Ivan 2004
7. Hurricane Charley 2004
6. Hurricane Wilma 2005
5. Hurricane Ike 2008
1. Hurricane Katrina 2005...
That combined COST nearly ) $1 trillion in written off losses due to the WORST Hurricane SEASONS in history![/U][/B]
The worst Katrina,made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 in 2005. It took 1,836 lives and caused $81.2 billion in damages.
Hurricane Katrina ALONE! Year 2005: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
On August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S. as a strong Category 3 or low Category 4 storm. It quickly became the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history, almost destroying New Orleans due to severe flooding.
Hurricane Rita quickly followed Katrina only to make matters worse. Between the two, more than $200 billion in damage was done. 400,000 jobs were lost and 275,000 homes were destroyed.
Many of the jobs and homes were never to be recovered. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and over 1,000 were killed and more are missing.
The effect on oil and gasoline prices was long-lasting.

Again... what other president had these gigantic world changing events happen in their presidency?

I want some honest responses especially from idiot conservatives who said: "Bush spent like a drunken sailor".. because I want you to prove it!
Prove how BUSH Spent like a drunken sailor when Wall Street stopped for 10 days! Airlines stopped for 3 days! When $7 trillion in assets gone!
Assets that generated tax revenue..businesses, investments etc.... GONE!
Tell me Where YOU conservatives that say "Bush was spending like a drunken sailor"...what would you have done???

The dot com bust and 911 were human failures...Katrina was Gods reminder of same.

 

[edthecynic]

Did dot.com bust, 9/11,worst HURRICANE SEASONS happen and who's fault???

Well, since the GOP Congress took credit for the dot.com boom they get credit for the dot.com bust. Bush owns 9/11 and God owns the Hurricanes.

 

[healthmyths]

Bush caused the both recessions, one of which was a great recession. There were no negative quarters during Clinton's term. The first negative GDP happened months after Bush took office. People were rioting over his stolen election & he went & hid in Texas instead of doing his job. That caused the negative GDP. Clinton had no negative GDP from the dot com bust that happened a year earlier, because dot com actually produced next to nothing back then, they almost all were losing money, so there was little gain or loss to GDP from it.

Bush let the 9/11 attack on US happen. Bush administration claimed that the C.I.A. had been fooled, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein. They were repeatedly told about the crashing of hijacked planes into buildings & the FAA had been advising our biggest airports of this attack 6 months earlier.

Bush cut the levy budget causing New Orleans to flood. He also botched the rescue of our citizens. Natural disasters hit during Obama's watch & they have been handled very well. Huge ice storm power outages, tornados & hurricanes have not been an issue.

Bush caused huge deficits, recessions, inflation & job loss.

Recessions for your pea brain aren't like a water faucet. Turn it off and GDP goes down which is one of measures of "recession"!
The recession that started officially in 3/2001 began the slow dribble of decline under Clinton!
FACTS idiot! U.S. GDP by Year

1999 4.8% $9,665.7 $43,716 Y2K scare. Budget surplus. Euro created. Glass-Steagall repealed. Fed raised rate to 5.5%.
2000 4.1% $10,289.7 $45,026 Tech bubble burst. Fed raised rate to 6.5% to fight 3.4% inflation.
2001 1.0% $10,625.3 $45,046 Bush 43 became President. Recession worsened by 9/11 attacks and War on Terror, but helped by Bush tax cuts. Fed started lowering rates.
DECLINING GDP means recession started under Clinton!!!

NOW you obviously NEVER NEVER HEARD of this because your pea brain ONLY believes what the biased MSM puts out!
YOU never heard of the Gorelick Memo obviously! Get educated boob!!

"As Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997
Jamie Gorelick wrote the memo that created the now infamous “Gorelick Wall.” A 1995 memo she wrote, stated explicitly that they would “go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation.”

These rules were, shortly after their creation, expanded to regulate such communications in future counter-terrorism investigations.
It set a procedure where various intelligence operations could not share information with each other.

Jamie Gorelick’s wall barred anti-terror investigators from accessing the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker, already in custody on an immigration violation shortly before 9/11.
At the time, an enraged FBI investigator wrote a prophetic memo to headquarters about the wall
‘Whatever has happened to this — someday someone will die — and wall or not — the public will not understand why we were not more effective in throwing every resource we had at certain problems…..especially since the biggest threat to us UBL [Usama bin Laden], is getting the most protection.
Breitbart News: Big Government

And this was done because Clinton had accepted Chinese donations in exchange for missile secrets!
Clinton sells missile technology to China - 1998
Thanks to the Cox Report, we now know that the seven years of the Clinton presidency have coincided with the most massive breach of military security in American history.
Clinton sells high tech missile technology to China - 1998 - Killingsworth Court, Formerly The General Forum - Killer Frogs

 

[edthecynic]

Recessions for your pea brain aren't like a water faucet.

Except of course, the Dec 2007 Bush Depression which the Right says happened the instant the Dems took office in 2007 without passing a single bill. The 2007 Bush Depression was the Dem Congress' fault not Bush's, but the 2001 Bush Recession was Clinton's fault NOT the GOP Congress' fault.

 

[KissMy]

If a dot com is losing money negatively impacting GDP, how does it hurt GDP when it goes bust?

 

[Skylar]

What natural/man-made disaster caused the tax cuts that favored the rich, and the war of choice in Iraq?

Now that was all Bush, all the time. The tax cuts never paid for themselves, nor were meant to. They were ideological rather than economic.

And Iraq was a clusterfuck by any definition. We were fed a steaming pile of bullshyte on Iraq, with the Bush administration trying to insinuate a connection between Iraq and 911. And straight up misrepresenting the 'WMD' claims.

It was a horrendously and pointless loss of lives, treasure and reputation. And will probably go down in history as one of the biggest blunders ever made by a US president.

No he didn't. He did try to draw parallels to what can happen, considering 9/11, the Cole bombing, the '93 tower attack, when rogue nations have a will to see harm come to the US. Something which the nation agreed with at the time, but due to politics of the worst kind, many soon forgot due to being fed lies, which they were successful with, to our nations detriment, at doing.

C'mon, guy.

learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaida sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved.

The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaida organization. We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in '93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of '93. And we’ve learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.

Dick Cheney December 2001

The CIA has already acknowledged there's nothing indicating Iraq had anything to do with the 1993 bombing. Not training, not financing, nothing. But Cheney got to say "World Trade Center", "Attack", "Al-Qaida" and "Iraq" over and over on national television.

It stretches credulity to conclude that was all just a coincidence. Especially when Cheney has preceded these claims with this rhetorical gem:

...."With respect to 9/11, of course, we’ve had the story that’s been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we’ve never been able to develop any more of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don’t know."

Dick Cheney September 2001

911, Mohamed Atta, lead attacker, meeting with senior Iraqi intelligence......but we just don't know. And is not like Rumsfeld didn't join the bandwagon:

Now, transport yourself forward a year, two years, or a week, or a month, and if Saddam Hussein were to take his weapons of mass destruction and transfer them, either use them himself, or transfer them to the Al-Qaeda, and somehow the Al-Qaeda were to engage in an attack on the United States, or an attack on U.S. forces overseas, with a weapon of mass destruction you’re not talking about 300, or 3,000 people potentially being
killed, but 30,000, or 100,000 . . . human beings.”

Donald Rumsfeld,
November 2002

When there was zero evidence of any connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda. And the administration knew it. And its no coincidence that they just happened to cite '3000' deaths......the same number of deaths that were lost on 911. Citing the same organization that attacked us. And citing attacks on the United States.

The Bush administration was even lying to Congress:

We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qa’ida going back a decade,” and “credible information indicates that Iraq and al-Qa’ida have discussed safe haven and reciprocal non-aggression”

letter from Mr. Tenet to Senator Bob Graham, 2002

Which is the *exact* claim they made against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Save in the case of Iraq, it was complete horseshyte.

And Bush is just the icing on the cake:

a threat because he is dealing with Al Qaida. . . . [A] true threat facing our country is that an Al Qaida-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.”

President Bush, November 7, 2002

And again....

Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members
of al Qaeda. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

President Bush, State of the Union 2003

Which was horseshyte. And in case there was any remaining doubts of the Bush administration repeated, obtuse, and intentional attempts to connect Iraq to Al Qaida to 911:

"The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 — and still goes on. . . . [T]he liberation of Iraq . . . removed an ally of al Qaeda.”

George Bush, May 2003

Its beyond obvious that the Bush administration was doing everything in their power to connect Iraq and 911 in the minds of the American people. Even while knowing that their claims were blithering nonsense.

Iraq lands fully on Bush. It was a colossal **** up that he created from scratch. And he owns it.

 

[Avatar4321]

No need to worry about blame. We just need to worry about making the future better.

 

[healthmyths]

Recessions for your pea brain aren't like a water faucet.

Except of course, the Dec 2007 Bush Depression which the Right says happened the instant the Dems took office in 2007 without passing a single bill. The 2007 Bush Depression was the Dem Congress' fault not Bush's, but the 2001 Bush Recession was Clinton's fault NOT the GOP Congress' fault.

Actually EVERYONE agrees the recession NOT depression started because of the housing bubble bust.
EVERYONE agrees with that.
NOW who is to blame for the housing bubble bust?
I'm not saying so but this does...

The subprime mortgage crisis led to the collapse of the United States housing bubble. Falling housing-related assets contributed to a global financial crisis, even as oil and food prices soared.
The crisis led to the failure or collapse of many of the United States' largest financial institutions:
Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers , Citi Bank and AIG, as well as a crisis in the automobile industry.
The government responded with an unprecedented $700 billion bank bailout and $787 billion fiscal stimulus package.
The National Bureau of Economic Research declared the end of this recession over a year after the end date.
List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now for the bailout...

The State of the Bailout Bailout Scorecard | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica

OUTFLOWS: $611 billion This includes money that has actually been spent, invested, or loaned.
40.1% or $245B of total went to Banks and other Financial Institutions
30.7% or $187B went to Fannie and Freddie
13.0% or $79.7B went to Auto Companies
11.1% or $67.8B went to AIG
5% or $31B went to Toxic Asset Purchases and Other

How much has been paid back:
INFLOWS: $653 billion Money returned and paid to Treasury as interest, dividends, fees or to repurchase their stock warrants.
Refunded or didn't USE $388B
Revenues $265B
Profit $41.7B (6.8% of outflows)
Do you comprehend this??? The Bush Bailout that was for $611B paid back $653B a profit UNHEARD OF to the Government of $41.7B or 6.8%

Do you BUSH bashers comprehend this????
THE BIG BAD BUSH BANK BAILOUT was less then $611B and paid back $653B for a profit!!!

 

[KissMy]

I am always amazed at how quickly people forget history!

Many of you on this forum in 2001 when the anthrax attacks occurred and NO ONE knew where they were coming from, some thought Saddam.

It turned out someone in the Bush government sent the anthrax to people who opposed the Iraq war.

 

[BlindBoo]

I am always amazed at how quickly people forget history!

Many of you on this forum in 2001 when the anthrax attacks occurred and NO ONE knew where they were coming from, some thought Saddam... but you tell me honestly in the fall of 2001 right after 9/11 you didn't open any envelopes with just a little hesitation especially if you lived LIKE I did in florida where
Timeline: How The Anthrax Terror Unfolded : NPR
Oct. 4, 2001: Bob Stevens of American Media in Florida is hospitalized with inhalation anthrax.

Oct. 5, 2001: Stevens, 63, dies. It's the first anthrax death in the U.S. in 25 years.

Oct. 8, 2001: Anthrax is found in the Boca Raton, Fla., offices of American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer. The building is closed.

Oct. 9, 2001: More letters laced with anthrax are posted, and the FBI begins investigating the incidents.

Oct. 12, 2001: An NBC employee in New York City tests positive for anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 15, 2001: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) tells reporters anthrax was found in his office.

Oct. 16, 2001: The 7-month-old son of an ABC News freelance producer tests positive for anthrax poisoning. The baby developed a rash soon after visiting the network's Manhattan offices on Sept. 28.

Oct. 18, 2001: A CBS employee and a New Jersey postal worker test positive for anthrax poisoning.

The American Media Inc. building was quarantined for more than five years because of anthrax infection, and was cleared by federal health officials to reopen in 2007.i
The American Media Inc. building was quarantined for more than five years because of anthrax infection, and was cleared by federal health officials to reopen in 2007.

Steve Mitchell/AP
Oct. 23, 2001: Two postal workers from the Brentwood facility in Washington, D.C., are confirmed to have died from inhalation anthrax.

Oct. 26, 2001: A U.S. State Department mailroom staffer is hospitalized with anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 28, 2001: Another New Jersey postal employee tests positive for anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 30, 2001: A New Jersey patient becomes the 15th reported case of anthrax poisoning.

Oct. 31, 2001: Kathy Nguyen, an employee of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, dies from inhalation anthrax.

Nov. 21, 2001: Ottilie Lundgren, 94, of Connecticut, becomes the fifth person to die from inhalation anthrax.

June 25, 2002: FBI agents search the residence of Steven Hatfill, a scientist who worked in the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md.

The Justice Department released photos on Oct. 16, 2001, of envelopes that contained anthrax, including this one sent to Sen. Leahyi
T
Rick Bowmer/AP
Aug. 2002: Hatfill is named a "person of interest" by law enforcement officials.

Dec. 2003: The Brentwood postal facility reopens in Washington, D.C., after more than $130 million worth of renovation and cleanup.

July 13, 2004: The New York Times is sued by Hatfill for defamation. He also sues the Justice Department.

Jan. 12, 2007: A federal judge dismisses Hatfill's libel suit against The New York Times.

June 27, 2008: Hatfill receives a $5.8 million settlement in his suit against the government.

July 29, 2008: Bruce E. Ivins, another government scientist suspected in the 2001 anthrax attacks, commits suicide.

Sept. 17, 2008: FBI Director Robert Mueller tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI will seek an independent review of the scientific evidence of the anthrax case "because of the importance of the science to this particular case and perhaps cases in the future."


AND yet you idiots forget this happened immediately after 9/11!! Why are you forgetting it??

Shortly after the first anthrax victim died in October, the Bush administration began an intense effort to explore any possible link between Iraq and the attacks and continued to do so even after scientists determined that the lethal germ was an American strain, scientists and government officials said.

U.S. Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack - NYTimes.com

Don't believe it?

Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks' | World news | The Observer

Scientists link Iraq to anthrax terror attacks | Mail Online

The Raw Story | Who first wrongly linked anthrax to Iraq -- and why?

 

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If a dot com is losing money negatively impacting GDP, how does it hurt GDP when it goes bust?

Here read what the experts said... NOT me OK??
According to the Los Angeles Times, when the dot-com bubble burst, it wiped out $5 trillion dollars in market value for tech companies.
More than half of the Internet companies created since 1995 were gone by 2004 -
and hundreds of thousands of skilled technology workers were out of jobs.
The dot-com bubble: How to lose $5 trillion ? Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs