Bigsky said: ...bush had his problems, but the financial crisis was not his...the patriot act, his, the speculating horse s%#t on oil was all him...attacking iraq, his baby...handing the keys of the united states over to the united nations...well he helped that little effort out alot, however the financial issue was all dems baby...
I am hugely surprized that Fox news lets you believe ANY of that stuff is Bush's fault!
Although I doubt you will read this (or anything, as you seem to be handfed most of your opinions from Fox "News", here is an interesting article from December of 2007, as few months before the stock market crashed under Bush's Presidency, decrying the way Bush was destroying the U.S. Economy)
http://www.vanityfair.com...bush200712This is for people that actually read. For those of you that butcher English Grammar and spelling and prefer to get all of your news and opinions from the audio bites prepared by the the Mainstream Media that is controlling you, carry on.
Up to now, the conventional wisdom has been that Herbert Hoover, whose policies aggravated the Great Depression, is the odds-on claimant for the mantle "worst president" when it comes to stewardship of the American economy. Once Franklin Roosevelt assumed office and reversed Hoover's policies, the country began to recover. The economic effects of Bush's presidency are more insidious than those of Hoover, harder to reverse, and likely to be longer-lasting. There is no threat of America's being displaced from its position as the world's richest economy. But our grandchildren will still be living with, and struggling with, the economic consequences of Mr. Bush.
After reading this very sensible article I liquidated all of my stocks and put all of my money in a credit union, and it was lucky I did. Do any of you realize how close the banks came to failing in 2008 just like they did at the start of the Great Depression (and who the President was at the time

)?
http://zerohedge.blogspot...pm-on.htmlHow The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18, 2008
LiveLeak has caught a scary moment of previously undisclosed insight by Paul Kanjorski where he reveals some facts that have not been captured by the media previously. At 2 minutes and 20 seconds in the video below, Democratic Representative Kanjorski explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a "tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion dollars." According to Kanjorski, this electronic transfer occurred over the period of an hour or two. And it gets worse. Kanjorski paraphrases the following disclosure by Bernanke and Paulson:
On Thursday (Sept 18, 2008), at 11am the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the U.S., to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened up its window to help and pumped a $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn't be further panic out there.
If they had not done that, their estimation is that by 2pm that afternoon, $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the U.S., would have collapsed the entire economy of the U.S., and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.