I am very very proud to live in this country. Bush said a lot - he was RIGHT ON, IMO.
He is setting a VERY important example to the French, to Iraq, to Iran and N. Korea, and to the UN. America WILL NOT compromise out best interests to appease the interests of others. This is something the US has done too often - and we've been burned before.
How can people say we are unreasonable? Bush gave Iraq's regime 48 hours to LEAVE. They have the choice now. Saddam knows he cannot win. If he does not leave, this is HIS doing. His time will come, very shortly, and before too long, I am willing to bet Iraq will be MUCH better off.
I am 100% behind my president on this. Not since Reagan have I thought a president has this much balls and this much staunch belief in what must be done to ensure the future of this great nation.
As for Bush goes I was happy with him at first but now I'm not so sure. I'm not a very political man but then again I have a say on things as so everyone! It seems like the past few months has been total hell for the US. Speaking the economy is gone to shit. People are loosing jobs right and left, plants are closing down that have been open for decades. I'm not saying it's Bush's fault but then again it's on the fence. I think in my mind that Bush is just trying to pick up where his dad left off when he left office.
1) Most likely he will be killed within the first few days if not the first few hours. He is target #1, along with his sons. I think this is 90% likely to happen.
2) If he does not get killed, he will likely be captured in some secure location by US troops, then he will be tried for war crimes, most likely. Probably 5% probability of this.
3) Possibly, one of his commanders will knock him off, but I don't think that will happen
4) He will disappear and go into hiding like Bin Laden eventually to be tracked down and caught within 2-3 months in god-knows-where. I do not think this will happen either.
4) He will disappear and go into hiding like Bin Laden eventually to be tracked down and caught within 2-3 months in god-knows-where. I do not think this will happen either.
I agree with you 100% on that statement. It's no telling where the hell Bin Laden is at. Hell he could be in the US as we speak!! You never know folks....
4) He will disappear and go into hiding like Bin Laden eventually to be tracked down and caught within 2-3 months in god-knows-where. I do not think this will happen either.
Ding Ding Ding Ding....Saddam has bought up a crap load of land and homes in Lybia...This guys a pussy...he's probably already out of Iraq!
What could Bush do to help the ailing economy? All the feds can do is adjust the interest rate - and that has a very mixed effect on the economy.
How can Bush help when plants are closing? You know one of the biggest reasons for the economy going to shit? Because during the "dot com bubble" the US admitted close to a million foreign workers into the US to take high-tech jobs. Anyone who works in high-tech knows about the Indians, Russians, and Chinese who work these jobs. By law, they must go home (at their employers expense) if their job is terminated. When the economy tanked, and companies had to lay off folks, who do you think was first to go? The US workers making $120k a year or the Indian guy who makes $60k and would happily take $40k rather than go home?? Also, do you think the company wants to pay for that no-advance-notice flight for Ivan to go back home? Hell no. So you have literally hundreds of thousands of HIGH PAID workers out of jobs. This ripples into other areas as well.
Why did this happen? During the boom years, the Clinton administration (and it was not really Bill's fault, but rather the fault of the house and senate - BOTH parties fault) they were letting in hundreds of thousands of workers EVERY YEAR on 5-year visas. Many of them never went home. The INS overran their quota many times. So this is what decimated the whole high-tech industry. And the decimated high-tech sector brought a lot of other things down with it. The ripples are still being felt.
9-11 really screwed things up too - more than most anything else. That was not Bush's fault. Actually you could even blame alot of that on the former administration - hell the towers were bombed before and we didn't do shit about it! But I didn't see the 9-11 attack coming an it's not fair to say they should have either, IMO..
Bottom line, it's anyone but Bush's fault. And honestly, going to war over something this important to this country should have nothing to do with the economy. The war is righteous because of what it's about - if you believe in the cause, does the cause become any less just simply because the economy isn't too great right now?
Jason...the President doesn't have hardly anything to do with the state of our economy...but he does get all the blame...
Not flaming you...just suggesting you think about this a bit...money for capital expenditures doesn't come from the Pres...and no one is spending any money right now...
Now, the tax cuts could help...but only marginally...
And honestly, going to war over something this important to this country should have nothing to do with the economy.
But it does in most cases Mike! I'm not sure why but it does. Seems like everytime someone hears the word "war" they run and hide and hold on to all there money. Again
What happened to the stock market today? *UP* 282 points on the Dow! I bet tomorrow it will surge again. It didn't surge because people though Bush would announce a new happy-happy-joy-joy policy towards Iraq, it surged because Bush was going to announce imminent war. How can what you say be true given that? The stock market is the *ultimate* indicator of whether people are holding or spending - and a 300 point gain shows a LOT of people SPENDING right NOW.
War DOES NOT generally have a negative impact on the economy... uncertainty does.
When we go to war, many things happen, such as MASSIVE government spending. This will improve the flow of money - and the *flow* of money is what the economy is about. The quantity of money hasn't changed, only the flow.
The war will bring stability. This is GREAT for the economy. When they nail Bin Hidin', that will be a HUGE boost. I predict a 200-300 point surge in the dow the day Bin Runnin' is proven dead or captured.
The day the war in Iraq is over, the economy will surge dramatically as it will when Bin Duckin' is caught or killed.
I don't personally put alot of stock in the economic side of all this, but I think the economic impact will be tremendous, in a good way!
The true cost of war is a fiscal footnote, not a capital footnote. The market is the latter.
We'll give back the gains of the last 5 days slowly, but surely until fiscal indicators and a conclusion comes to this "war". The volume really wasn't heavy enough for it to be the true end of institutional capitulation.
