If you take this to collegiate level and try to spin it , it can be done with a smoke screen of numbers and variables.
But the bottom lines is that our economy has growth.
It aint a lot to brag about but its not going south like you say it is.

JMJ

When he starts voting democratic.

There are two guys in a room, one has $500K and the other has 50 cents. There are two people looking into the room. One’s an economist and the other is just a regular guy. The economist says, “The average wealth of the room is $250,000.25.” The regular guys says, “Hey, look at the rich guy and the poor guy in that room!” One year goes by. The man with $500K invests his money in a foreign market and makes another 250K. The guy with the 50 cents has made nothing and remains with his 50 cents. The economist says, “The average wealth in the room has increased aproximately 50% on the year.” The regular guy says, “Hey, I wonder when that poor guy is going to kick that rich guy in the nads and take off with his money.”

The point here is simple: “growth” tells you very little about the overall health and welfare of the economic state. Yes, of course, positive growth is better than “negative growth” (yes, in economics there is such a term). but growth, in and off itself, tells you very little. You could have the top 5% of earners increase their wealth so much in any given year and show overall growth even if the bottom 95% doesn’t grow at all, or even recedes. “Growth” is a simple term for simple minds.

As for speculators, I would suggest reading Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD). The man is our premier expert on all things oil in the US House - and he’s no liberal loony.

http://bartlett.house.gov/News/DocumentQuery.aspx?CatagoryID=2057

JMJ

If your gonna keep blaming Bush I would only find it fair that you cast that blame evenly amongst all administrations since Carter. As I pointed out above
The two things that are really screwing us right now is oil and food prices.
NO administration has ever been able to control oil.
Carter was on a passive agenda in the middle east and it went up on a percentage way past the one we see know.
Bush’s agenda in the middle east is an agressive one and we see the same thing.
Its all how the market acts and the speculators perceive and react to occurances in the world.
Clintons administration enjoyed a good economy untill his last year in office.
The Bush administration has given us a decent economy up untill his last year.

If you were to be in charge of doing something about our economy I feel you would be one of the least effective people to approach this problem because your solution would be a tunnel vision approach. “If only Bush were out of the picture everything would work out fine”

If you approach problems that actually exist instead of ones made up out of hatred you would actually be a lot more effective. ( and believable)
But your emotional BDS impact on your logic would make your ability to make decisions in these matters disasterous.
So far in all your diatribes you have made it clear that you would reverse “every single” one of Bush’s policies, or that you dont favor them.
If that doesnt point to bias instead of praticality I dont know what does

Contrary to being aggressive, he’s made a fetish of ‘being fair’ even to the extent of suspending judgement on Obama vis a vis the whole Wright issue.

Kiki Freedman once told him he’s got barbed wire rash on his butt from sitting on the fence. How true.

O’Reilly’s people originally came from County Cavan. Cavan folk are regarded as real stingy, a trait illustrated by the story of a neighbor calling into his friend’s house and seeing his friend stripping off the wallpaper.

“Oh”, says he, “I see you’re decorating.”

“No, indeed,” replies the man of the house. “We’re moving!”

JMJ