How Bush stifled discussion

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One morning in 2001, one of President Bush's most senior economic advisers walked into the Oval Office for a meeting with the president.

The day before, the adviser had learned that the president had decided to send out tax-rebate checks to stimulate the faltering economy. Concerned about deficits and the dubious stimulatory effect of such rebates, he had called the president's chief of staff, Andy Card, to ask for the audience, and the meeting had been set.

As the man took his seat in the wing chair next to the president's desk, he began to explain his problem with the president's decision.

The fact of the matter was that in this area of policy, this adviser was one of the experts, really top-drawer, and had been instrumental in devising some of the very language now used to discuss these concepts.

He was convinced, he told Bush, that the president's position would soon enough be seen as "bad policy."

This, it seems, was the wrong thing to say to the president.

According to senior administration officials who learned of the encounter soon after it happened, President Bush looked at the man. "I don't ever want to hear you use those words in my presence again," he said.

"What words, Mr. President?"

"Bad policy," President Bush said. "If I decide to do it, by definition it's good policy. I thought you got that."

The adviser was dismissed. The meeting was over.



http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2010/09/17/Bush-Tax-Cuts-No-Economic-Help.aspx#page1
 
Subsequent analysis showed that the rebate had virtually no stimulative effect, exactly as economic theory predicted. By and large, people saved the rebate rather than spend it.

And the saving didn’t even do any good because the deficit, which is negative saving, increased by the same amount.

In any case, the economy continued to deteriorate and unemployment rose sharply despite the tax cut.


http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2010/09/17/Bush-Tax-Cuts-No-Economic-Help.aspx#page1
 
Of all the disasters left behind by the Bush administration – two wars, a banking system that teetered on the edge of collapse, an economy in steep decline – the Bush tax cuts have proven to be a sleeper that may be the biggest disaster of all.

Republican strategist Dan Bartlett smugly said in a recent interview that the tax cuts were a trap for Democrats designed by Bush and the Republicans to detonate on someone else’s watch.

“We knew that, politically, once you get it into law, it becomes almost impossible to remove it,” says Dan Bartlett, Bush’s former communications director. “That’s not a bad legacy. The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tell you the truth.”



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-in-one-graph/2011/07/25/gIQAELOrYI_blog.html
 
Details on those who earn millions of dollars each year are very hard to come by, because they can stash a large part of their wealth in off-shore tax havens in the Caribbean and little countries in Europe, starting with Switzerland. And there are many loopholes and gimmicks they can use...

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
 
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Details on those who earn millions of dollars each year are very hard to come by, because they can stash a large part of their wealth in off-shore tax havens in the Caribbean and little countries in Europe, starting with Switzerland. And there are many loopholes and gimmicks they can use...

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
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you are really a retarded troll....that link has nothing to do with bush stifling discussion

but you don't care, you just create troll thread after troll thread and then just blindly cut and paste your far left wing rhetoric over and over
 
White House science adviser John H. Marburger III has denied charges that the administration refuses to accept the reality of climate change, noting that President Bush pointed out in a 2001 speech that greenhouse gases have increased substantially in the past 200 years. ...the administration said it was planning a five-year program to research global warming and climate change.



http://www.marsroverblog.com/discus...ming-evidence-what-else-is-being-stifled.html
 
It's funny that Yurt can't comment on the OP.

It's a very plausible story, based on everything we know about Bush.
 
Onceler said:
It's funny that Yurt can't comment on the OP.

It's a very plausible story, based on everything we know about Bush.
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no it is not. there are plenty of stories of how he managed his admin in a positive light. but of course you want to accept some unsubstantiated version because it fits your world view. there is nothing to comment on, this a pure troll thread.

and really.....................pay attention................how is this a current event? \\\legion/// posts three threads about bush in a few minutes and of course onceler doesn't claim ODS. you're a pathetic double standard hack.
 
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