8 Years down a slovenly sloppy path of wasting our resources our standing and our peace of mind

[Mira]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/07/1736214.aspx

A great thing to save/have/hold for the future - when all of this will become "Obama's failure".

Posted: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:10 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: White House, Economy - NCB Mark Murray

The "Then" is the best-available figure as Bush was taking office in 2001. The "Now" is the most recent figure.
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001)
Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001)
Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

BUSH FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 50% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 31% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CHENEY FAVORABILITY RATING
Then: 49% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING
Then: 48% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION'S DIRECTION
Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll)
Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100)
Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001)
Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)

FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY
Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent numbers available)

AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE
Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000)
Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 -- most recent available)

U.S. BUDGET
Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office)
Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)
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I posted it all because I did not know how to cut it properly

[Mike 03]

1. It's so painful, isn't it? These are eight years that I'm already blocking out of my memory. NT

[Initech]

3. No, we shouldn't block this stuff from our memory.

We need to make absolute certain that it never happens again.

[Andy823]

5. I agree!

We can never let this memory fade, we need to keep it front and center, and keep pointing this happened during the "Bush" years, not the Obama years! We have to remember that the republicans will do whatever they can to push this off on Obama, and we can't let them do that. We also have to make sure we never get Jeb Bush in the office of president! NO MORE BUSH's"!!!!!!!!!

[Initech]

16. Oh god, Jeb as president...

:scared: :nuke:

[Wapsie B]

2. But now is not the time to blame.

We need to look forward, not in the past. :sarcasm:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. The only thing

that keeps me from exploding these days is this:

[Mira]

7. Turned around did he look like this?

the boots, and his socks with the Presidential Seal send me to kingdom come when I think about it.
All the time while he drove the country off the edge he made us pay for his childish lunch bucket items.

Gawd I hate him.
12 more days

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. JESUS GOD!!!!!!!!

Tell me that's a photoshop. PLEASE!!!!!!!

This - http://www.backwardsbush.com/code.php - has been a big help. I installed it as my screensaver, and since this desktop computer is always on, whenever I walk in here, the number is LOWER than the last time I looked at it.

Check it out. It helps.

Now I must go and stick sharpened pencils into my eyes so as to get that cowboy boot image out of .........................................

[Mira]

9. Can't soften the impact. It's not photoshopped, it's right up there as illustration of fratboy

Kindergartner Bush 43



in this picture, just above the Crocs, you see the Socks. We paid for the embroidery of these things.

I not only have the countdown calendar on my PCs, I have it on my keyring, my grandson gave it to me and paid 2 weeks allowance for it.

12 more -- Tangerine -- and then I'll be in Washington with this grandson trying to take part in history.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!

I just broke out in a cold sweat.

STOP IT!!!!!!!!

Now I have chills. I don't know what this means. It's not good.

Oh, that little fucker. I hate him. I hate him so much........................

[Mira]

13. Waving good bye to you and me ! Last one

(the two behind him are our sisters)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. You're not getting away that easily...........

[pleah]

6. K&R I, for one, will never let this die.

I plan to keep this alive, so that people NEVER FORGET what this regime did to this country and other countries.

[Kaleko]

11. "Slovenly" and "sloppy" don't begin to describe

the Bush reign of terror.

A lot of the fallout hasn't hit mainstream Americans yet.

But when it does and the truth of what they've accomplished comes out...

ah well, I'm not even gonna speculate any further.

[Mira]

12. Yes, you are right. I sensed it when I typed it. The idea was to earmark / pardon the expression

this list as a handy one in simple words to throw into the faces of those who are presently lying low and are ready to pounce.
(Happy New Year Kaleko - guten Rutsch?)

[Kaleko]

14. It's great to have these numbers handy,

carved on baseball bats or two-by-fours, whenever someone needs a reminder. :-)

Thanks, gracious Mira, für den guten Rutsch. We are slip-sliding toward the swearing in of the Great Black Hope and I can't wait to have his admin. to bat around a bit.

Ah, the CONTRAST!! My brain gurgles with glee to see the Creepozoids get their dishonorable discharge.