What About the Last Seven and a Half Years

Bush is only half right.

While the tax cuts where a major step in the right direction to Fiscal Conservatism... he forgot the other component.

He should have cut spending in everything that was not related to the military.

He should have vetoed all pork spending from day 1, even from the republican led Congress, and he should have forced Congress to limit it's spending instead of approving so much of it.

On top of that, inflation has been inaccurately reported since the Carter Administration and ...

"Inflation numbers are intentionally manipulated to keep cost-of-living numbers low.

The Consumer Price Index, or CPI, is the central statistic the federal government uses to calculate inflation.

Beginning during the Carter administration, federal economists cleverly redefined the CPI, with the goal of removing from the index expensive items, including food and energy, that would push the CPI higher.

Today, the Federal Reserve when setting interest rates focuses on a variation of the CPI that measures "core inflation."

According to the Forbes "Investopedia," core inflation excludes items such as food and energy because food and energy "face volatile price movements."

These are the statistics that Alan Greenspan has been using to manipulate interest rates, and this is a lot of the reason our dollar is so weak.

It isn't a recession that we are seeing so much as it is misreported inflation.

As SSA benefits and Cost of Living are determined by these statistics, the beneficiaries find their spending power effectively reduced as do the poor.

I consider this to be another reason for eliminating the Federal Reserve and returning to the Gold Standard, because the FED is playing games with the damn numbers and creating our economic problems.

Source link...

http://worldnetdaily.com/...

VRWC member.

Did Neil Cavuto ever ask Bush that question?

Listen to what Destiny 007 has to say................is this Destiny one of Ian Flemings men?

If you wanted to know how Bush "Jr" worked as a president, you ONLY had to look at how he ran Texas as govenor. He was a "mix" of views back then, too... but majority of them are conservative views.

His JOB, from the moment of his INAUGURATION to defend and support the constitution of the United States of America against ALL enemies, both foreign and domestic... to be the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces... etc. etc. Why are folks like you so head-up on condemning the man because he hasn't lived up to YOUR standards and expectations?

Gewcew, we VERY rarely agree on anything, but I would have to agree with you on this one. I am sure that fiscal conservatives have felt like they were sold a bad bill of goods when they elected Bush. He has spent like a drunken sailor on leave, and the one part of his budget that has to be down is the number of pens that he uses for vetos. He has never seen a tax cut he didn't like, and he has never seen a spending bill that he didn't like. I don't know how he expects to move his fiscal conservatism through a congress where even republicans aren't going near him. Good luck with that one.

I have admired Bush for his stance on national security, I voted for him twice. I was terribly diapointed with his fisccal policy and his pandering to the left on issues such as immigration and medicare drug benefits. Bush has let down all of us who hold conservative principles. Big government is the antithesis of what we believe. he wa still the best choice because at least he understands national security and despite the demigogory in the press he has done what needed to be done there. I just wish he had reinged in the spending and frozen the growth of the government. As bad as he was I think we are in for a real shock when the next president takes office. It doesn't even matter which one wins because they are both horrible, both liberal. McCain is almost as scarey as Obama. Is there any hop for us during the next 4 years. I think I'm going to build a shelter in the back yard and stockpile food, guns and ammo. Because I think all three are going to get scarce shortly.