Bush Bush BUSH!
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I know this is a lot of days of quotes in a row, but this is all me ensuring that you guys have posts to come to while I manage taking some time off after my internship and getting back to school and then getting to my fiancee's place for an engagement party. I don't want to make a normal post for fear that it will be outdated by the time that I get to it. So enjoy and get a nice huge laugh.....
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Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is 5.1 percent. That's good news for people who are trying to find jobs.
-- Smoketown, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004
This economy of ours is steady and strong. It's steady and strong. It's steady and strong, which means people are going back to work.
-- Washington, D.C., Jul. 2, 2004
We've got -- John Biagas is with us. John, thank you for coming. Newport News, Virginia. Newport News, Virginia. John purchased his business in 1997. He took a gamble and said, I'm going to buy the business from the previous owner. I think he said they might have had a million dollars' worth of sales in 1997 -- they're over $14 million now. That's pretty good growth, isn't it, in a five-year period of time?
-- Great, except that 1997 is seven years ago, Washington, D.C., Jul. 2, 2004
We have overcome a recession. That means things are going backwards.
-- Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mar. 26, 2004
We've been through a recession. That means things are going backwards.
-- Nashua, New Hampshire, Mar. 25, 2004
We need to make sure that we have legal reform. Junk and frivolous lawsuits make it awfully difficult for people to find work here in the United States.
-- Dubya stretches responsibility for the poor job market to include frivolous lawsuits, Washington, D.C., Mar. 23, 2004
Heck, we're 5 percent of the world's population, which means there's 95 percent of the people ready for products that say, "Made in the USA."
-- I guess the American 5 percent will have to continue buying products made in China, Washington, D.C., Mar. 16, 2004
We had some CEOs that weren't honest with their shareholders and their employees. And we passed tough laws that said, we're not going to tolerate dishonesty in the boardrooms of America. You're now beginning to see on your TV screens what we're talking about. People are being held to account. And that hurt our economy.
-- Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Mar. 15, 2004
I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.
-- Bakersfield, California, Mar. 4, 2004
Hopefully, as the Georgia economy approves -- improves -- and I'm confident it will -- there will be opportunities for business opportunities.
-- Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 2004
Recession means that people's incomes, at the employer level, are going down, basically, relative to costs, people are getting laid off.
-- Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2004
I have been saying that this economy looks pretty strong, and today 112,000 new jobs were created last month -- a report that 112,000 new jobs were created last month. And that's good.
-- Reston, Virginia, Feb. 4, 2004
We want to make sure our wallets all across the country are healthy.
-- Dubya proposes a health care plan for wallets, Philadelpia, Pennsylvania, Jan. 31, 2004
Unemployment dropped today to 5.7 percent.
-- Somehow, unemployment managed to drop in a single day. Dubya sure has his finger on the pulse of the economy. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 2004
See, when a person has more money in their pocket, they're likely to come to Home Depot.
-- I think someone had better check the corporate campaign contributions list, Halethorpe, Maryland, Dec. 5, 2003
Brian Stowell is here. ...He says the tax cuts helped a lot. That's his words, not mine. ...He's going to buy a new router, made in North Carolina. There's a router worker who's going to be a -- benefit from his decision caused by tax relief.
-- Manchester, New Hampshire, Oct. 9, 2003
When somebody has more money in their pocket, they're more likely to demand a good or a service. And in our society, when you demand a good or a service, somebody is going to produce the good or a service.
-- New variation on this Dubya classic seems to indicate that production in response to demand is an attribute which is unique to American society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 3, 2003
You see, when Al and his company decides to buy a machine, somebody has got to make the machine. And that means somebody in the machine-making company is more likely to find a job, as well.
-- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 3, 2003
A free and peaceful Iraq will save this country money in the long term. It's important to get it done now.
-- Comments made three days after asking Congress for another 87 billion dollars, White House, Sep. 10, 2003
We said loud and clear [to corporate scoundrels], if you cheat the shareholder and your employees, you will be held responsible for those decisions. The world is now more peaceful because we acted.
-- Who could have guessed that enforcing stricter economic policy has brought peace to the world? Fridley, Minnesota, Jun. 19, 2003
We got into deficit because the economy went into the recession -- is how we got into deficit.
-- Little Rock, Arkansas, May 5, 2003
Jim Davis, an Arkansas small business owner] was reminding me that by getting rid of the double-taxation of dividends, he would save $5,700 -- money, which, by the way, that he would seriously consider putting back into his insurance company. He'd like to hire two additional employees. The double-taxation -- getting rid of the double-taxation of dividends would make it more likely two people would find work in Jim's business.
-- So is Jim planning on paying them each $2850 a year? I don't see the cause and effect that will allow him to hire two more people. Little Rock, Arkansas, May 5, 2003
We got a recession because we went to war.
-- Santa Clara, California, May 2, 2003
For the sake of job growth, let's put those tax cuts we've already got in place, in place today so people can find work.
-- Santa Clara, California, May 2, 2003
And we had an emergency and a recession, which affected the revenue growth of the U.S. Treasury. I mean, the stock market went down. Some of the pie-in-the-sky projections didn't make, and the investors said, oops. The numbers weren't real. The investors said, well, it looks like the days of everything is going up may end. And so people started selling, and the markets went down. That affected the revenues coming into the U.S. Treasury. Recession -- negative growth means less revenues. And so, of course, we've got a deficit.
-- Canton, Ohio, Apr. 24, 2003
But this nation has got a deficit because we have been through a war.
-- Do me a favor and refresh my memory... Who was it who sent us to war again? Canton, Ohio, Apr. 24, 2003
The more money they have in their more pockets -- in their pockets, the more likely it is that somebody will find work.
-- White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Feb. 9, 2003
Ten million seniors receive dividends. It's a part of their retirement package. It's a part of making sure the quality of life is high. A dividend is a part of a dollar that has gone through our system that has been taxed twice.
-- Rapids, Michigan, Jan. 29, 2003
But there is a difference of opinion about who best to spend your money in Washington, D.C. Sometimes they forget whose money you're spending. Listen to the rhetoric.
-- St. Louis, Missouri, Jan. 22, 2003
One of the problems we have is that enough people can't find work in America.
-- Bentonville, Arkansas, Nov. 4, 2002
Of course, we've got a -- our economy is kind of bumping along. It's not as strong as it should be. It's bumping and bumping.
-- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nov. 4, 2002
Millions of -- thousands of people -- millions of dollars and thousands of people -- millions of dollars aren't being invested and thousands of people aren't working.
-- It's neat, you can see the sentence take shape before your very eyes, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Nov. 1, 2002
If you put your mind to it, the first-time home buyer, the low-income home buyer can have just as nice a house as anybody else.
-- Washington, D.C., Oct. 15, 2002
This is -- an ownership society is a compassionate society.
-- Washington, D.C., Oct. 15, 2002
You'll hear, we're going to spend -- the government is going to spend the government money here, and the government is going to spend the government here.
-- Trenton, New Jersey, Sep. 23, 2002
I'm so proud to be here to embrace his candidacy. ...Bill Simon is a proven businessman.
-- Showing support for the GOP gubernatorial candidate in California, whose firm had recently been convicted and ordered to pay $78 million in damages for defrauding a partner, Stockton, California, Aug. 23, 2002
I think one of the things you'll hear is that even though times are kind of tough right now, that we're America.
-- Economic Recovery and Job Creation Session, President's Economic Forum, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
When you have your own money, it means you've got more money to spend.
-- Greensboro, North Carolina, July 25, 2002
Sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.
-- Justifying his oil firm's accounting record, Washington, D.C., July 8, 2002
My view is -- and you know what it is, which is if you let people keep more of their own money, they'll spend it. And when they spend it, they're going to demand a good and service and then somebody's got to provide the good and service.
-- Washington, D.C., June 13, 2002
But if you're fortunate enough to be an American -- responsibility to love your neighbor. That if you run in -- if you're in corporate America you have a responsibility to your workers and your shareholders to fully disclose assets and liabilities.
-- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Apr. 15, 2002
You see, we understand -- Phil understands, I understand, and John understands -- that if you let people keep more of their own money, they will demand more goods and services. And if they demand more goods and services, somebody will help produce those goods and services. And if somebody else produces those goods and services, it makes it easier for somebody to find work.
-- An explanation of "Dubya-nomics" made to the Republican Party of Texas, Dallas, Texas, Mar. 29, 2002
remember campaigning in Chicago one time, and the guy said, would you ever deficit spend? I said, well, only if we were at war, or the country was in recession, or there was a national emergency. I didn't realize we were going to get the trifecta.
-- At least the 4th documented "trifecta" statement by Dubya, who apparently doesn't see the comparison of tragedy to winning big at the horse races as inappropriate, Four Seasons Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Apr. 3, 2002
Look, I don't care about the numbers. I know the facts.
-- Answer to economists who were debating the economic impact of September 11, St. Petersburg, Florida, Mar. 8, 2002
The best way to battle an economic slowdown is to get people your own money back so you can spend it.
-- Des Moines, Iowa, Mar. 1, 2002
The first condition to make sure that people can find work is to make sure our nation is secure, secure against an enemy that wants to attack us.
-- Offering interesting economic theory, John Deere Harvester Works, East Moline, Illinois, Jan. 14, 2002
Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.
-- Apparently capable of preventing tax hikes, even from the afterlife, Jan. 5, 2002
More money in people's pockets mean more economic activity.
-- Explaining just how simple economics is (for him), town hall meeting, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 4, 2001
Listen to your mother.
-- Dubya's response to a 7th-grader asking what he can do to help the economy, town hall meeting, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 4, 2001
I hurt, that coming into the holiday season, that you're not working. But I admire your courage for going out to try to improve yourselves so you can find jobs around here.
-- Orlando, Florida, Dec. 4, 2001
The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.
-- Washington, D.C., Apr. 5, 2001
America is, the harder you work, the easier the middle class ought to become, and the more money you get to keep.
-- National Newspaper Association 40th Annual Government Affairs Conference, Washington, D.C., Mar. 22, 2001
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
-- Reuters, May 5, 2000
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.
-- The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000
I understand small business growth.
I was one.
-- New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.
-- On the coming Social Security crisis, Wilton, Connecticut, June 9, 2000
It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.
-- Candidate George W. Bush
Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work.
-- 60 Minutes II, Dec. 5, 2000
It's your money. You paid for it.
-- LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Oct. 18, 2000
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
-- Dubya commenting on the federal Social Security system, St. Charles, Missouri, Nov. 2, 2000
Some say give it [the Federal Budget Surplus] to the taxpayers who pay the bills. That some is George W. Bush.
-- Dubya dispensing with the surplus while simultaneously dispensing with all command of the English language, Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 22, 2000
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