I think your message would have been a little better if you had included a couple more exclamation marks.
Er, because many of their most regular customers are off on vacation. With their wives and kids, apparently.
Sorry for the hijack.
If you are looking for a President to make life easier or better, I think we have a bit of insight into your psyche Reeder.
Your life, and everyone else’s, is your for the making or breaking. Constantly looking to place every ill at the feet of GW shows an inability to accept personal responsibility or an unhealthy obsession with the current administration.
In your case I fear both.
I would also like some cites for your assertions in the OP.
Me, too. For one thing Reeder, drop the Bushista and Apologista terms. They trip you right out of the gate, IMO. To me, it says your mind is closed and debate is futile.
I will try to find the articles mentioning it… but the little economic growth the US is showing now is a jobless recovery as the article put it. Has to do a bit with greater efficiency and not with more jobs coming…
Even if some sectors of the US economy do pick up... some seemed doomed to probems: Airlines, Tourism and Commerce to some extent.
I doubt the economy estimates for the future are as rosy as some have predicted. Bushonomics have yet to prove any real gain.
Just pointing out here that I don’t get what you are driving at. Airline traffic has been down worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001. Are you trying to say that the Bush administration is somehow responsible for this decline?
Why do you suppose President Bush’s approval rates remain high, given the dismal state of affairs you describe?
Well “high” would be relative, Bricker. Refer to RedFury’s post above:
You say “remain high”, the polls say “lowest ever”. How would you explain that?
Perhaps, to be more clear, I should have said, “above one-half of those polled” rather than simply “high.”
My point was that if the picture is as dismal as painted by the OP, and the fault lies with the President, it’s difficult to imagine why more than half of those polled approve of the way he’s handling his job.
- Rick
One thing has nothing to do with the other. GW is doing pretty good, poll-wise, compared to our recent presidents. If things were a fraction as dire as Reeder and Co. want us to believe, shouldn’t GW’s ratings be the ‘lowest ever’, when compared to other presidents?
Brutus, let’s talk some more about that money. I’m open to being convinced. 
but the blue line is heading nicely down
sorry, make that purple (must be color blind)
The paint industry sucks ass. I fear for my job daily.
By the way I’m in the rust belt.
As far as Cleveland is concerned- even if the economy picks up… it won’t help us overall in the long run unless other companies decide to put their base of operations here.
In the meantime, people will just move to other cities.
Well, I refinanced my house! I also received a check for $800. Surely these are good things. I’ve kept pretty busy providing mental health services. He increased tarriffs on steel, which was putatively good for the local economy.
On the other hand, Bush dealt a serious blow to research that suggests a possible cure for my son’s disease (diabetes) with his decision on stem cell research. Budget deficits are also serious threats to funding for mental health research, which will also impinge upon my future career activities.
In seriousness, I cannot think of anything that Bush has done that has led to an improvement in the functioning of this country. I do think that one has to be particuarly partisan to suggest that they are pleased with what Bush has done. It is unfortunate that this thread started the way it did, because I would have an honest interest in hearing what people actually believe has been good about what Bush has done.
Well in other countries they arent asking for as many security measures and making as many restrictions to travellers as the US is… so Bush=US Govt. is responsible for a good PART of the bad situation of US carriers.
Connection Flights that usually would pass thru the US will now go thru Panama and other countries due to the VISA requirments now enforced. A good number of tourists from other countries are having a hard time getting a VISA and many others dont even bother trying. That all adds up to less economic activity and Latin American businesses moving to more friendly areas.
We still have far superior living conditions compared to 95% of the rest of the world.
Now convince me that things are BAD.
No offense, Sam, but that’s just an estimate. We shouldn’t count our chicks until they hatch. There have been plenty of optimistic economic estimates over the past couple of years that haven’t been borne out. The current growth rate is still pretty anemic.
The correct term is Busheviks, not Bushistas.
And just for the record, I can’t think of any improvements that have happened under Bush, and I can think of multiple things that have gotten worse under his administration.