NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Under the backdrop of a deteriorating economic picture, President Bush said Tuesday he is taking action to help people with falling home values and high gas prices.
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Bush highlighted plans to stabilize the mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and lift the ban on offshore oil drilling as two steps his administration is taking to address some of the nation's economic ills.
Watch: Bush: A 'tough time'
'It's been a difficult time for American families," Bush said at a press conference. "We must ensure we can continue providing credit during this time of stress."
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Isn't it a shame that the comments posted are mostly agreeing that our President is an idiot. What a worldwide disgrace and abusive man this dork has been. He surrounds himself with idiots as well!!!!
I think a safe thing for Congress to do is the exact opposite of what Dubya suggests. Look back at his tenure and he has done nothing that has worked out. Besides make the rich, richer.
It will be a day of celebration when he is ousted from the Presidency. Obama will get us back on track.
AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WAN 4 MORE YEARS, IN THE PERSON OF JOHN MCCAIN AND THAT JUST WHAT YOU GET 4 MORE YEARS OF PURE HELL !!!!! (YES OBAMA CAN PULL US ALL OUT OF THIS MESS)!!!!!!!!!
For the few of you trying to support GW by saying the banking crisis is not his fault, it is the fault of the CEOs fooling people who can not afford homes into taking mortgages, think again. What administration made these practices possible?? It is the Bushes and Phil Gramms of the world that pushed banking deregulation which stopped any government oversight of this practice. This let the predatory lendors out on the loose. Even if you are not one of those losing their homes, you are hurting almost as badly if most of your equity is in your home because this mess is also causing property values to decrease.
Yet his colleagues call this a "mental recession". Who is really out of touch here?
Does everyone realize what the so called conservative approach to business is? As few regulations as possible. So then these companies go wild, the mortgage lenders and other financial institutions, and billions of dollars, the key players then run off with the money and the businesses collapse and we get to bail them out. This happened with the S& L crisis of which another bush criminal was involved, Neil Bush in the 80's. When are we going to wise up. Never, I say never vote for a Republican unless you are in the upper 1%.
Just for whom is the economy improving? For the corporations you pray to, thats who. And your fellow millionaires in the church of greed. I only hope we survive the last months of an administration run by a redneck nitwit and a sociopath.
189 days until he's out of office.
No "blankity-blank" Sherlock!!!!!!
Ignorance begets ignorance! The Republicans are doomed this fall and you had all better thank the Idiot-In-Chief!!
While we're at it, let's veto any new gun control laws, continue to outsource the "war on terror" to Blackwater, continue making Halliburton by far the largest war profiteer in U.S. History, redact any findings that the EPA comes back with on the state of our planet and get ready to blame the coming Depression on Barack Obama.
To the Bush apologists on here who think we all simply want to blame everyone else. I agree to the extent that we must look in the mirror to a degree, but out leadership or lack of is what has helped us arrive at where we are.
A failed war policy in Iraq,
FEMA fiasco,
$4 Gas,
Housing Crisis.
Constitution in shambles.
Not all of these things can be completely laid at Bush's feet, but he played a very LARGE role in ALL of them, a much larger role then you or I did (I might be inclined to excuse the housing crisis, but again monetary policy and lax oversight played a role in that as well). I do believe he should be impeached and should never been allowed into office if for no other reason then he lacks the basic intelligence and leadership skills needed to guide a boat, let alone a Nation. He has been a pathetic failure, and while I am a proud American, he makes the thought of moving to Canada very palatable, and that is a very sad thought to have to admit.
And did you hear McCain call the Social Security program an abomination. The "conservatives" want to get rid of social security as it is costing businesses money and that would leave millions of elderly out on the street. Never vote Republican unless you are in the upper 1%.
war criminal....................blah...blah...blah.......
I'm sure Bush isnt hurtin with all his Big Oil Money
It's been a tough time alright. Look who is in charge of Congress? The Dems. That's ok. Bush has broad shoulders.
OK Georgie Tell that to Murdoch! Or do You tink he'll fire You at
Dawn?
Think he's bad let McCain get in there...