U.S. must focus on its economic troubles (Molly)

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Molly Ivins

Published: Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2005

If you had done a poll in November 2000, or in November 2004, I don’t think you would have gotten out of single digits with this proposition: “George W. Bush wants to radically revise American law, including complete repeal of the New Deal, and take us back to the economic legal system that prevailed at the turn of the 19th century – Robber Barons Redux.”

During the past five years, both media and political circles have devoted an enormous amount of attention to social issues and culture wars – rise of the Christian Right, anti-abortion groups, our debates over moral decline and moral relativism, prayer in the schools, school vouchers, displaying the Ten Commandments, sex and violence in entertainment, bias in the news media, gay marriage and all the rest of it.

I sometimes think all of it amounts to a bunch of people saying, “The world would be a much better place if everybody else thought exactly the same way I do.”

Reminds me of Dr. Henry Higgins in his famous philosophical disquisition, “Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man?” Higgins finally discovers the ultimate problem: “Why can’t a woman be more like ME?” <snip>

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1. The U.S. economy has been a total lie for the past 4 1/2 years

....nothing that Bush has done has helped the overall economy, only certain sectors and groups of individuals. Any recovery to get the country back on track where Bill Clinton left it steady growth in jobs and economic expansion, balanced Federal budgets and trade imports, balanced Social Security, expanding middle class, lowering poverty and more, will take decades.