Looking for a list of Shrub's bad economic policies

[onebigbadwulf]

It's time to put our resources together and pull out a list of Bush's bad economic policies. We need proof that Bush has directly influenced how bad the economic situation is. Does anyone have a link to a list? Otherwise we will have to make it from scratch... so I will start.


1. Didn't reform NAFTA
2. Didn't reform WTO
3. Didn't reform the FTAA
4. Tax cuts to the rich (instead of the poor)
5. 150 billion to Iraq instead of job creation (?)

[onebigbadwulf]

1. =(

[hobbes159]

2. How about.....

all of them!

[papau]

3. Below: Some results of the great tax cut fueled recovery ignored by media

more than 2 million Americans having been unemployed for 27 weeks or more, according to the latest Labor Department statistics

several labor market indicators are worse than they were in March 2002, when the extended unemployment benefit program (TEUC) was initiated:


The unemployment rate is higher -- 6 percent vs. 5.7 percent


The number of unemployed is greater -- 8.8 million vs. 8.2 million


The number of long-term unemployed is greater -- 2 million vs. 1.3 million


The number of jobs available is smaller -- 130.1 million vs. 130.5 million

And the number of payroll jobs outside the farm sector is still 2.4 million lower than in February 2001, before the latest recession

Can we have some Morning in America media please - and a discussion of how hard it will be to defeat Bush in 04 given the great recovery that is occuring?

:-)

[onebigbadwulf]

4. Oooh

how about the ending of over-time for 8 million

[Creideiki]

5. It's not tax cuts to the rich instead of the poor

It's tax cuts at a time when we can't afford them. Allowing the deficit to increase rapidly and the debt to increase as a percentage of GNP is what Greenspan warned causes a direct increase in interest rates, which can't really go much lower unless you want the government to pay people to borrow money.

Then reducing money to states, cutting back student loans, and the like, exacerbates the problems. Molly Ivins wrote a column last spring that detailed exactly how cutting back federal funds to Texas impacted people living there. Many people have similarly seen libraries close and schools fire teachers or cut back hours or days.

The overall goal seems to be to return to all local services being locally funded. That's going to be great for affluent states/counties/cities, but it's going to widen the gap between the rich and the poor across the country.

[Deja Q]

6. Then the poor need to fight back

The problem is, how to convince the poor to get to the rich neighboorhoods, as the rich don't give a frick about anything unless it impacts them personally, and the poor shouldn't be killing each other because of what the rich are doing to them.

[proud patriot]

7. I believe Paul Krugman's book "the Great Unraveling"

Would help you in your research :hi: