Counting the days until January 2009. So now! The Chimpenfuhrer says the war is good for the economy. Here's the real problem, he says: "We built too many houses and the economy is adjusting". And they say he's not stupid:
This morning on NBC’s Today Show, President Bush denied that the there’s any link between the faltering U.S. economy$10 billion a month being spent on the Iraq war. In fact, according to Bush, the war is actually helping the economy...
I've run out of sporks with which to stab my eyes. I am now looking around for any sharp object... anything...
The Iraq war has created jobs — for the administration’s defense contractor allies. Bush’s most recent budget is a windfall for contractors, and between 2000 and 2005, procurement was the “fastest growing component of federal discretionary spending.” (Halliburton has been the biggest beneficiary of the administration’s generosity.)
Five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, however, national unemployment is going up. Between December 2006 and December 2007, the national unemployment rate increased by 13.6 percent in seasonally adjusted terms, from 4.4 to 5.0 percent. Additionally, 68 percent of the American public believes that redeployment from Iraq would help fix the country’s economic woes.
That sums it up succinctly. I was going to rant for about 15 minutes (in blog years, that's about 7 inches of rant). Now I don't have to. But I will whine. That only takes up about a half an inch.
Here goes: Geooooorge, you're soooo wro-o-o-onnnng! Sto-o-o-op i-i-i-i-it!!!!
There. I feel better now. Doesn't take much.
I know, Lynette, I know. Sniffle!