I was thinking about something pretty interesting

[daniel3417]

it is, as the president he has to make the economy or give it a chance to be better, but when you import more than you export then because of that all the prices on virtually everything goes up which costs company's more and people more everyone gets laid off.

being a republican to me right now you seem to fall in the steriotype of that nothing is wrong with the world and bush is god.

i think if you had to live in the shoes of someone on minimum wage or someone on pay check to pay check, your views on these issues would change. my mom makes good money that i don't need to worry about that, but it wasnt always this way...

are you telling me its NOT bush's fault that he continues to buy the gas at outrageous prices instead of trying to find other places or drill in the USA? because i know its his fault.

and then when minimum wage isnt going up but prices on food and gas do, that creates major problems. republicans don't care about anything except other republicans for the most part. have you ever met a poor republican before? cause i haven't, because they are on the wealthier side.

say what you want to say, but when you hear in the news every week of another thousand people getting laid off because bush has left the economy with little money to spend on things like new cars, you'd think differently

I'm a Republican and certainly don't think that Bush is God.

Your comment on the gas prices is very ill-informed. The president does not buy gas for the country. That only happens in a communist country like Cuba. So, of course, I'm saying that it isn't his fault that gas prices are high. That makes no sense. And Bush DID try to open new drilling sites in the USA but the liberal Congress blocked him.

Yes, I know many poor Republicans. Come to eastern Tennessee. They're everywhere.

[daniel3417]

I VOTED FOR BUSH IN 2000 and I would rate him as the worst in history, he has broken every one of his campaign promises and ruined the country.. Under his watch

I really have no major pro or anti Bush status, but you have to remember that most of his policies were extremely affected by 9/11. I'm not familiar with the signs he should've seen, but can anyone predict what happened that day?

[gladdyontherise]

I'm a Republican and certainly don't think that Bush is God.

Your comment on the gas prices is very ill-informed. The president does not buy gas for the country. That only happens in a communist country like Cuba. So, of course, I'm saying that it isn't his fault that gas prices are high. That makes no sense. And Bush DID try to open new drilling sites in the USA but the liberal Congress blocked him.

Yes, I know many poor Republicans. Come to eastern Tennessee. They're everywhere.

Come to Michigan though and you will find 0 poor republicans..lol

Bush does have say into what we do with the situation in gas, all i here though is there is gas in Alaska (not sure if its true) that could last 50 years!! but we need to conserve it, heck if for the immediate future until theres a new plan, we have gas prices way less, it can't hurt us.

I think of it like this, when Bush entered, people didnt think the world was about to crash to the end, now i here that theres a possibility if we as a country treat the enviorment as poorly as it is, Flordia could be under water by 2055. i would still be in my 60's at that time.

It may not be Bush's fault but as the "leader" of the country, he needs to find new ways to better the bad situations

[daniel3417]

Come to Michigan though and you will find 0 poor republicans..lol

Bush does have say into what we do with the situation in gas, all i here though is there is gas in Alaska (not sure if its true) that could last 50 years!! but we need to conserve it, heck if for the immediate future until theres a new plan, we have gas prices way less, it can't hurt us.

I think of it like this, when Bush entered, people didnt think the world was about to crash to the end, now i here that theres a possibility if we as a country treat the enviorment as poorly as it is, Flordia could be under water by 2055. i would still be in my 60's at that time.

It may not be Bush's fault but as the "leader" of the country, he needs to find new ways to better the bad situations

Well you asked if I knew any poor Republicans and I do. I know virtually all of Michigan is employed in a union, so they're all Democrats.

I didn't understand your Bush-gas response. He tried to drill in the ANWR, the 50 year supply you're referring to, but the Congress blocked him.

And as far as the Florida thing...I don't think that's going to happen. But I suppose it could...it's a little far fetched, and I refuse to be duped into believing wild conspiracies.

[shortking98]

I think the way he handled (or failed to handle) Katrina really turned a lot of people off

[daniel3417]

I think the way he handled (or failed to handle) Katrina really turned a lot of people off

But you never hear about the hard hit area of Bilouxi, MS, or other coastal states, do you? It has to do with local leadership just as much as it has to do with Bush. As I recall, the mayor of New Orleans was blaming everyone but himself.

[shortking98]

Wasn't the population of New Orleans like 5x that of Biloxi? I would guess that is the main reason that the focus was on New Orleans. It was a major disaster and clearly local government could not handle it. That is the time when higher levels of government need to step in. Presidents in the past have always done a better job handling major disasters like that then President Bush did with New Orleans. Just because local government did not do a good job does not mean people will be more willing to accept it

[ensbergcollector]

Wasn't the population of New Orleans like 5x that of Biloxi? I would guess that is the main reason that the focus was on New Orleans. It was a major disaster and clearly local government could not handle it. That is the time when higher levels of government need to step in. Presidents in the past have always done a better job handling major disasters like that then President Bush did with New Orleans. Just because local government did not do a good job does not mean people will be more willing to accept it

First of all, i will admit a bias on the subject.

There were numerous reasons for what happened in NO. First of all, the majority refused to leave until the last minute, thus making it impossible to evacuate everyone.
Secondly, multiple helicopters with supplies attempted to land and were unable because they were being attacked by people on the ground.
Third, you heard more about new orleans because they complained more than anyone else. The people of Mississippi were hit just as hard but decided to start fixing things instead of wait for the government to do it for them. The town I lived in was trashed by Rita a month after Katrina. We didn't ask for Fema trailers. We didn't complain about how long it took for them to get us money.

Take this hurricane for example. All the stations yesterday spent 90% of their time talking about New Orleans even though the storm hit 70 miles away. If you don't complain, you don't get attention!

[shortking98]

I understand that it was not easy for other places but most of the people who suffered in New Orleans were those that were too poor to rebuild on their own. Your point about helicopters being attacked just furthers the point that the situation was completely out of control