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With the current state of US and world economy, the alternative to jumping out a window, committing a heinous crime or planting your pup tent under an overpass, is retire early  and collect your meager social  security check at general delivery.  Yes, the post office still has General Delivery.
Have you made the right choice?  Maybe [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 25th, 2009 | Tags: pensioner, poverty, Public Health, recession, Retirement, social policy, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Tax Dollars, taxpayers, unemployed | Category: Poor, Public Health, Retirement, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Tax Dollars, pensioner, poverty, recession, social policy, taxpayers, unemployed | Comments (1)

Bush: economy not in recession, in slowdown
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the U.S. economy was not in a recession but was experiencing a slowdown.
“We’re not in a recession, we’re in a slowdown,” Bush said at a news conference at the end of a two-day summit [...]

Posted by bosskitty April 22nd, 2008 | Tags: , Bush, economy. recession, Iraq, Middle East, NAFTA, Oil, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, slowdown | Category: Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Corporate Corruption, Deception, Democracy In Action, Middle East, NAFTA, OPEC, Oil, budget, economy, recession | Comments (1)

It used to be oil for food. Now, its oil substitute OR food. Super Powers are focusing on a dying concept. Cheap energy the old fashioned way is no longer viable.

Posted by bosskitty April 13th, 2008 | Category: Corporate Corruption, Environment, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, Global Power, Global Warming, Health, Human Rights, Mismanagement, Oil, Oversight, Planet, Politics, Power Shift, Public Health, Statistics, War Cost, Waste, World Health, World Order, contradictions, critical resources, economics, energy, fiscal responsibility, food, global community, hunger, jobless, negligence, oil-for-food, poverty, recession, refugees, renewable energy, unemployment | Leave a comment

US President George W Bush has insisted the US is not in recession but says that he remains concerned about the economy’s performance.
In his State of the Union address, President George W Bush made reviving the US economy the centrepiece of his last year in office. But can he do enough to avoid blame for [...]

Posted by bosskitty March 7th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Constitution, Politics, Tax Dollars, Tax Relief, arrogance, economic stimulus, economy, recession | Leave a comment

Five years into Iraq, Bush denies any link between Americans’ economic pain and war spending.
… oil prices once again crested above $100 a barrel and more Americans than at any time since the Great Depression owed more on their homes than the homes were worth; in the year that the subprime market crashed, global [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 29th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Executive Branch, GOP, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Iraq, Mismanagement, Occupation Army, Oil, Orwellian, Oversight, Pentagon Corruption, Tax Dollars, War Cost, delusion, disinformation, economy, fiscal responsibility, jobless, mortgage, recession, taxpayers, unemployment | Comments (6)

NEW YORK – Wall Street plunged Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials down 370 points after investors saw an unexpected contraction in the service sector as evidence the economy is sinking into recession. It was the Dow’s biggest percentage drop in almost a year.
“The report drives a nail into the coffin from investors’ minds that [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 5th, 2008 | Category: Dow, Wall Street, depression, economy, jobless, recession | Comments (2)

Reid Tries to Pressure G.O.P. for $159 Billion Stimulus Bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats tried to pressure Republicans on Monday to vote for a $159 billion economic stimulus plan, including $1 billion in additional subsidies for home energy, instead of a cheaper, more streamlined package approved by the House last week.
The [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 5th, 2008 | Category: Agendas, Democrat, FISA, HR 5140, Promises, Republican, S.2248, Senate, Stimulus, Tax Dollars, Tax Relief, Vote, economic stimulus, economy, extortion, fiscal responsibility, recession, tax rebate, taxpayers | Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget on Monday that supports sizable increases in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts.
The spending proposal, which shows the government spending $3 trillion in a 12-month period for the first time in history, squeezes most of [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 4th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Double Cross, Hypocracy, Legacy, Mismanagement, National Debt, Tax Dollars, budget, cutbacks, economy, national security, procurement, profiteers, recession, spending, taxpayers | Leave a comment

Last week, Bush announced his economic stimulus plan, which was too little too late. The world markets reacted in the same fashion believing that Bush once again is not doing enough. As Bush continues to wastes billions on a failed war, the U.S. economy has tanked. Bush’s attention on what is important to BushCo and [...]

Posted by nytexan January 22nd, 2008 | Category: Bush, Federal Reserve, economics, economy, recession | Leave a comment