What About the Last Seven and a Half Years

Bush is only half right. While the tax cuts where a major step in the right direction to Fiscal Conservatism... he forgot the other component. He should have cut spending in everything that was not related to the military. He should have vetoed all pork spending from day 1, even from the republican led Congress, and he should have forced Congress to limit it's spending instead of approving so much of it. On top of that, inflation has been inaccurately reported since the Carter Administration and ... "Inflation numbers are intentionally manipulated to keep cost-of-living numbers low. The Consumer Price Index, or CPI, is the central statistic the federal government uses to calculate inflation. Beginning during the Carter administration, federal economists cleverly redefined the CPI, with the goal of removing from the index expensive items, including food and energy, that would push the CPI higher. Today, the Federal Reserve when setting interest rates focuses on a variation of the CPI that measures "core inflation." According to the Forbes "Investopedia," core inflation excludes items such as food and energy because food and energy "face volatile price movements." These are the statistics that Alan Greenspan has been using to manipulate interest rates, and this is a lot of the reason our dollar is so weak. It isn't a recession that we are seeing so much as it is misreported inflation. As SSA benefits and Cost of Living are determined by these statistics, the beneficiaries find their spending power effectively reduced as do the poor. I consider this to be another reason for eliminating the Federal Reserve and returning to the Gold Standard, because the FED is playing games with the damn numbers and creating our economic problems. Source link... http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61663 VRWC member.

Did Neil Cavuto ever ask Bush that question?

If you wanted to know how Bush "Jr" worked as a president, you ONLY had to look at how he ran Texas as govenor. He was a "mix" of views back then, too... but majority of them are conservative views. His JOB, from the moment of his INAUGURATION to defend and support the constitution of the United States of America against ALL enemies, both foreign and domestic... to be the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces... etc. etc. Why are folks like you so head-up on condemning the man because he hasn't lived up to YOUR standards and expectations?