God YES!!! Unless, there is a better republican candidate running against him. Which I doubt there will be.
Eric Cressey -
I second that sentiment about Kerry. I live in Boston and at times am embarrassed to admit it, hearing some of the crap that’s coming out of that guy’s mouth.
Hell Yes
Yes
The economy is also very much affected by what the Federal Reserve Board does. It’s not just the president’s responsibility. And like Goldberg said, the economy has always followed an up and down cycle. It’s a little simplistic to blame it on the president. There is many factors to consider.
Hell yeah! You can never have enough bush, let me tell you. What? Oh, shit. Sorry guys, wrong thread.
What’s this? Men who lift weights support Bush? This proves it… those dern libs are a bunch of girly-boys.
Resounding yes! Bush is the man.
JMB
It is true the economy is cyclical- every time a Bush comes in to office the economy goes to shit.
HUGE
Probably.
The president has little to do with the economy.
Also, the economy was going down the tubes BEFORE Bush took office. Don’t be a dumbass and say it got bad after he took office. Take some Ginko to get your memory working again.
To Matt Levin, give Bush enough time and Wolfowitz (however you spell it) enough planning, and we will probably be at war with N. Korea. I dont know if would vote for Bush, personally I would love to see Colin Powell run, at he can speak eloquently enough to garner the respect of most of the world.
No. Anyone’s better than him.
The only thing that Clinton did for the country was appoint the right people in office. And he had a good speech writer.
He did absoultely nothing for the economy. Microsoft, Dell, Sun Microsystem, Lucent. ect made the ecomony go up in Clinton era and bust in the end of Clinton’s era and the start of Bush.
Clinton rode the wave that was started by those before him and fuc*ed up the country for those after him.
Yes, with the standard disclaimer that if a better candidate comes along with whom I agree on more issues and policies I would vote for him or her.
Matt – The best thing that could happen to the economy is for the Senate to pony up with Bush’s whole dividend tax cut and reduction in marginal rates (In other words, he’s been trying to help the economy, but Congress hasn’t been very cooperative). The only thing that would be better than that would be a reduction in the capital gains tax and the elimination of that silly distinction between long- and short-term capital gains.
YES, he’s done a great job.
BTW so far, 21 YES or most likely, only 6 NO
TO Goldberg,
“What can the President directly do to the economy?” At first I actually thought you were joking, I am not insulting you mind you I just actually thought it was a response. Since the President does directly effect the economy in a countless number of ways I will just list some important ones and then If you really want me to go into detail I will. The President directly impacts the three main components of stimulating an economy in slowdown, investment, consumption, and job growth.
The President develops the nations foreign policy which profoundly effects our economy, trade embargos, tariffs, with whom and what we trade etc. The President's 2001 tax cut that will be phased in include reductions in marginal income tax rates, marriage penalty relief, a wider 10 percent income braket.......... The elimination of double taxation of coporate income, raising the amount a small bussiness can deduct from 25,000 to 75,000,........Providing an increase in the Personal Reemployment account.........,
This is just one instance of effecting the economy, to say a president does not effect the economy directly is an unintelligent remark, I am sorry if I offended you.
No.
Yes I will vote for him.
Scall141: There are two ways to affect the economy, fiscal policy and monetary policy. You give examples of monetary policy, but those are more controlled by the fed (which is independent of the president) The president can propose fiscal policy, like his tax cut proposal, but it is up to congress to pass laws and decide on spending levels, tax levels, tariffs and trade.
It is also true that the economy does follow a cyclical pattern. It is also true that there is a lag time from when fiscal policy is put into effect and when it happens in the economy. Some economists feel that this lag time is over 5 years, meaning we are just now feeling the effects of the Clinton Era.
Additionally to Matt, people translate the stock market and the economy to be the same thing, while related, they are not. The stock boom of the '90s had no foundation or fundamental reason for its exuberance, eventually it was revealed that the emperor wears no cloths, a la the tech bust, and stocks readjusted themselves to more closely resemble their value.
Thanks scall144 for the input. I couldn’t believe it myself that some people here actually believe the president has no direct effect on the economy. Clinton did specific things to help the economy get to where it was. It’s fun to create a dream world where all of your arguements are true, but let’s wake up for a second here folks. Now, back to the issue. Bush has done nothing to make me want him back in office. People can claim the economy wasn’t his fault, and all this other stuff wasn’t his fault, and that’s fine, but a president has to do something to show me a reason to want him back. I feel that American life is at a far lower quality than before his election. I feel that he is a terrrible diplomat. I also want this administration to fully disclose its hand in the Enron/energy scandals, which it refuses to do. I also want this adminstration to live up to some of the promises it made (end to corporate malfeasence, end to “nation building,” balancing the budget). Too many broken promises for me…
For now…definitely Not.
“Unless a better candidate comes along”??? LOL
Why, do you think that the GOP will not put Bush up for re-election?
Or are you conservatives pretending that you might cross party lines?
I will not vote for Bush, I think he is a dolt and a poor excuse for a man… “Feel good!” anyone? (Bush’s private comment before declaring a countdown to war on TV).
As far as Kerry’s comments that it is time for a “regime change” in America, I couldn’t agree more.