if it does not happen at the ranch it must not be happening
Posted by jonathan - 16/02/08 at 07:02:30 am
Woodie sent me a link that was right on target; It gets my blood boiling. I knew we were in trouble when George Bush could not get out of his motorcade on Jan 20th 2000. He did not want to get pelted with rotten apples so he could not participate in the customary walk down Pennsylvania Ave to the White House. Eight years later anyone who says he was a good president should be shipped to Antartica because I don’t those people living anywhere close to me. In classic bush form he’s again trying to hide an inconvenient truth.
The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsened. Conservatives have attempted to deflect attention from the crisis, by blaming the media’s negative coverage and insisting the United States is not headed toward a recession, despite what economists are predicting.
The Bush administration’s latest move is to simply hide the data. Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards. As Forbes explains, the government site provides an invaluable service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data:
This site is maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration and combines data collected by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, like GDP and net imports and exports, and the Census Bureau, like retail sales and durable goods shipments. The site simply links to the relevant department’s Web site. This might not seem like a big deal, but doing it yourself–say, trying to find retail sales data on the Census Bureau’s site–is such an exercise in futility that it will convince you why this portal is necessary.
Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of “budgetary constraints,” effective March 1:
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