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Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His Strategies For Economic Growth
By Pat Garofalo on May 16, 2012 at 10:45 am
Former President George W. Bush jumped back into presidential politics this week, endorsing presumptive 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. He also, according to the New York Times, plans to release a book in two months that will lay out his advice on boosting economic growth:
That Bush believes the country needs his thoughts on how to create economic growth is laughable. After all, under his watch, growth in investment, GDP, and employment all posted their worst performance of any post-war expansion, while overall monthly job growth was the worst of any cycle since at least February 1945, and household income growth was negative for the first cycle since tracking began in 1967. As the Economic Policy Institute found, between the end of the 2001 recession (2001Q4) and the peak of that expansion (2007Q4), the U.S. economy experienced the worst economic expansion of the post-war era.
As this chart shows, the only economic indicator on which Bush exceeded the average is corporate profits:
more:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/16/484981/bush-economic-book/
preview:
http://img.xcitefun.net/users/2009/05/70008,xcitefun-017246394.gif
louis-t
(23,292 posts)SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)Will it be in Fiction, Horror or Humor
lastlib
(23,224 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)And did that actually happen with a book Rumseld wrote -- people were going into bookstores and moving it into Fiction, Humor, and Fantasy sections?
rocktivity
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)is offering his economic expertise!?
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HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Putting Satirists and Comedy Writers (and pretty much everyone else) Out of Work Since January 21st, 2001.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I wouldn't trust him to run a lemonade stand.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)..
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)malthaussen
(17,193 posts)n/t
bongbong
(5,436 posts)"Give me $24.95 and my economic growth will be up. In return, you'll learn a valuable lesson: don't buy books from repigs."
mazzarro
(3,450 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)My book budget is limited, and now I have to choose between this book, Sarah Palin's new one "Finish What You Started", or Rush Limbaugh's new one "Keys to a Successful Marriage". Decisions, decision...
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Strategy #2: See Strategy #1.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)Are we supposed to follow the economic advice of the dipshit who nearly drove the economy, and the national debt, over a cliff??? What possible contribution could we get from a man whose only economic achievement was to make his rich buddies even richer, and poor people poorer?
He needs to be sent back to the oblivion he came from and stay there and STFU!
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)rocktivity
beac
(9,992 posts)the chance to give him a swift kick in the gonads.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Of course, it will be on the "New York Times Best Seller List".
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when the books they had on that list actually were pretty good books.
His book will have an asterisk by it, naturally.
As his buddies will flock to order 1000s of them to give away to unsuspecting victims.
Just another attempt to rebuild the charade of the President who had no character.
The first MBA President.
What a fucking joke!
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)rocktivity
n2doc
(47,953 posts)and we will be just fine.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Think of all the fun we'll have a) Getting Rmoney and all the other Rethugs to endorse Georgie's policies, and b) reminding people how wonderful the Bush years were. He must REALLY be hurting for money, but I'm not complaining. Quite the opposite -- thanks, Georgie!
rocktivity
davekriss
(4,616 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)by the crew of the Titanic.
Marblehead
(1,268 posts)Yavapai
(825 posts)Charmin is much cheaper!
Initech
(100,068 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)spanone
(135,830 posts)Johonny
(20,841 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)On purpose?
Remember, this is someone who has failed at every business venture he has ever embarked upon.
deacon
(5,967 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/05/16/George-W-Bush-says-hes-for-Romney/UPI-79791337170787/#ixzz1v8UkXbNu
Dubya on how to be an international diplomat and peacemaker? The Bush method of disaster relief?