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- inactive, on 01/12/2009, -5/+76No.
- thepoliticalcat, on 01/13/2009, -5/+70***** no. Laid off after 10 yrs at a 25-year old, pretty solid company. 40% of the workforce got it in the neck, so I can't feel too sorry for myself, but then I looked at my 401(k) and dreams of early retirement are long gone. I'll be working till I'm 90 unless things get better. I actually don't know any one - not a single person anywhere in the world - who is doing better now than when Clinton left us with a trillion-dollar surplus.
- novenator, on 01/13/2009, -6/+68In his final press conference today (man that's a good thought), he snickered that he was unlucky enough to be president during an economic downturn. That man is a coward who refuses to accept any responsibility. It was not coincidence, it was YOUR policies that put the country here King George. Good f*cking riddance.
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-In December of 2000, just one month before George W. Bush took office, unemployment had reached a decade low of 3.9%. Eight years later, unemployment has ballooned to 5%, with more job losses on the horizon.
-On January 14, 2000, just six days before Bush was sworn in, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 11723. Today, it has fallen more than 2,500 points to its current level of 9050.
-In 1999, Bill Clinton took what had been a massive federal budget deficit, and turned in a surplus of $122.7 billion. The next year, he did it again, but this time turned in a surplus of $230 billion. George W. Bush inherited nearly $500 billion in surplus. The surplus long gone, the Office of Management and Budget estimates that the US federal budget will run a deficit of $1 trillion in 2009. - Alheithinn, on 01/13/2009, -6/+65No, absolutely, positively no. Under Clinton the economy was booming, I was well employed. After, it was a disaster. And now this attempt by Bush to blame Clinton for the recession is a joke.
- sockpuppets, on 01/13/2009, -1/+57***** you Cheney.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -5/+60***** no!
- apastafarian, on 01/13/2009, -5/+55Sobs gently and shakes head in disgust!
This is what you get when you vote for stupid! - JenniferInMO, on 01/13/2009, -6/+53Definitely not.
- kmom5, on 01/13/2009, -4/+50Not even close.
Better off? I'd settle for about the same as. Too bad I can't say that, either. - algaeturd, on 01/13/2009, -3/+43That man and his administration destroyed this country from the inside out. Compared to 9 years ago, this nation is a destroyed wreck. There's no doubt about that. Every single aspect of American lives are worse on the whole for this idiot being elected in there and then re-elected.
I hope those who voted for him are proud of helping to shoot themselves in the feet.
It's still a black eye that this country will bear for a long, long time and not something we'll get over anytime soon.
Overall, I'd say these past 8 years have been WAY more disastrous than 9/11 in terms of what we've lost and those lost over in Iraq for no reason. - inactive, on 01/12/2009, -6/+45Halliburton?
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -5/+42Well at least you morons can't vote for him a third time.
- apastafarian, on 01/13/2009, -5/+39Ahh, a 20%'r takes its head out of the sand to post on digg.
- JenniferInMO, on 01/13/2009, -4/+38AIG?
- felman87, on 01/13/2009, -5/+37Repo man?
- novenator, on 01/13/2009, -5/+34Oil Exec?
- affiliatebroker, on 01/13/2009, -3/+31The Era of Bush Dwindles To An End --- EIGHT years TOO DAMN LATE
- Ne007, on 01/13/2009, -5/+31but..but.....Clinton got a BLOWJOB!
- DavidGX, on 01/13/2009, -1/+26Can we just get Clinton back? Let's throw him some hookers or something and get this ***** back in order.
- ekoshyun, on 01/13/2009, -3/+27Seriously. I can't forgive anyone who voted for him that second time.
- aussiejan, on 01/13/2009, -4/+28It's interesting that you are only looking at this only from your own personal situation. I think most people are looking at the state of the US and the world. When Clinton left office your country was at peace and was prosperous. Now you are engaged in war without end and your economy is in the toilet. I don't think many would agree with the way you are looking at the last 8 disastrous years.
BTW, I don't think the majority of people expect the government to make their living for them. What they expect is for the government to run the country in a way which supports financial growth at all levels so that everybody can benefit - not just the rich. - orchidee2, on 01/13/2009, -1/+24Thank God, it´s over!
- Rotzooi, on 01/13/2009, -6/+29Osama bin Laden?
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+22I always thought that 'no child left behind' was such a crock of ***** program.
Good idea, instead of kids with lower academic prowess getting the low grades and life lessons they deserve, lets just lump them in with the higher kids and hold them back, so the lower kids dont feel bad. That is how real life will treat them in the future right?
I would hope that Obama of all people will reach out to the NAACP after he takes office :) - mardraum, on 01/13/2009, -4/+26Obama?
- borez, on 01/13/2009, -5/+26Blackwater accountant?
- schoate09, on 01/13/2009, -4/+25***** Bush.
- asaone, on 01/13/2009, -4/+24Thank God, it's almost over 8 years of hell, killing the constitution, bankrupting the nation, killing more of our military since Nam, making his friends rich while the rest of us went slowly into the poor house which we are slowly being evicted from because we can't even afford that. Thank God this ***** ass bite " I Am The Decider " is leaving power. IMHO.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -3/+23Haha, I see what you did there....replaced the B in Obama with an S! Very clever! Wherever did you learn a trick like that?!
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -2/+21People seem to blame the president... Blame congress, blame local government, blame banks, blame auto makers, blame the federal reserve, blame everyone including yourself that these people are still in office.
- fakeguy, on 01/13/2009, -2/+20OK two questions:
1. Raise your hands if you would take a bj 99% of the time.
2. Raise your hands if you would start a false war that would cost the lives of over 4000 soldiers.
Thanks. - zadadka, on 01/13/2009, -3/+21Huge sighs of releif from around the globe.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+19just flush the goddamn toilet already
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -5/+23Alzheimer's ?
- markgl, on 01/13/2009, -1/+18That's your fault
- MadN, on 01/13/2009, -5/+22"When the Florida recount ground to a halt in 2004 and it became clear that Al Gore would be heading back to life as a private citizen, Democrats gritted their teeth and started planning how, in four long years, they’d get George W. Bush the second time around. But after enduring a period that saw two foreign wars and economic indicators pointing to an impending meltdown, Bush did what few Democrats thought was possible, and won another term."
Um, no.
Bush has NEVER won an election.
Florida was swindled by Jeb Bush in 2000, and Ohio had it's official results "pre-filtered" through a Republican owned server in Tennessee.
These are admitted facts, and may have led to the murder of Karl Rove's It planner.
Both the 2000 and 2004 elections thefts should be given top priority by the FBI, unless we want more Republican scams in the future.
Anyone who tampers with cast ballots in an election result should go directly to jail. - roodammy44, on 01/13/2009, -2/+16It's really hard to think of something he didn't royally ***** up.
Anyone? - vidaliasweet, on 01/13/2009, -1/+15Nobody said he wasn't a character. The problem is that his destruction of this country has been so sickening that political satire isn't even funny anymore. He wasn't supposed to entertain us, he was supposed to do his job.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+15Here's a clue for people:
STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS! - inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+14I never voted for Bush. I can take no blame.
- felman87, on 01/13/2009, -2/+15So you did sit around and depend on the government to make your living for you during the Clinton years?
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -4/+17Didn't you promise to leave Digg if Obama won?
- HamstaMan, on 01/13/2009, -0/+13I always thought that 'no child left behind' was such a recruiting tool for the army.
From wiki "The Act also requires that the schools distribute the name, home phone number and address of every student enrolled to military recruiters and institutions of higher education, unless the student (or the student's parent) specifically opts out." - inactive, on 01/13/2009, -4/+16Dugg for the End of Bush.
- novenator, on 01/13/2009, -5/+17poprocks, then you must not get out much. 90% of the country has been suffering
- grodani, on 01/13/2009, -0/+11I had somewhat the same reaction, but it is certainly the case that primarily Republican policies such as the push for deregulation in many sectors and poor enforcement of existing regulations were part of a culture fostered by a certain type of wealthy so-called conservative. And it is also certainly the case that Bush typified that type of so-called conservative (and Cheney even more so). And the white house does influence the Fed, after all. So while I think it is an oversimplification to lay it all at Bush's doorstep, he makes a good poster boy.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+11Ah, someone who can see into the future. What will the lotto numbers be next week, Nostradamus?
- kuzotz, on 01/13/2009, -1/+12My god you guys are idiots. Unless you were in the public education system during this ***** then you wouldn't understand. It was mostly testing, and the problem with testing was that there were schools who didn't even have the resources to prepare for those test, and they lost funding due to low test scores. I mean when an entire school base on income level in a low income level area is failing these test. Its more than likely because the school can't afford to give kids a decent education, but people keep approaching this from a middle class perspective, and yea the middle class did also suffer under this *****, and in many different ways as stated by the original poster. The way it was handled was quite ass backwards, and the fact that school boards tend to give funding to the schools they like the most then they discriminate by under funding schools that have ethnic minorities as the majority, or schools that are in low income areas.
- willterminus, on 01/13/2009, -1/+12I know the feeling I had to go through 8 years of school from 2001-present day. When I was 7 we did not have to take all these No child Left Behind but by the time I was 10 all we did was practice for them and take them they waste time. Also Might I add I always scored advanced and proficient on these tests so I could care less. But they are a waste of time. Thanks to them my school education was ruined and so I did things on my own. Thank fully I am now spending half of my day in a technical school which is 100x better then the regular school I spend my day at. I am happy to see him go and when my kids are in school I hope 21st century history lists bush as the worst president in history. Any way 7 days and its all over and the times are going to slowly change though its to late for my public school education. The next generation will have it better and thats better then nothing.
- chase001, on 01/13/2009, -0/+11But the carnage of Hurricane George will take years to clean up.
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