Friday, February 29, 2008

Don't worry, be happy!

President Bush speaking to Ann Curry earlier this month when asked if he thought the war might be adversely affecting the U.S. economy (with most recent estimates of the total cost of Bush-Cheney war now exceeding three trillion dollars) :

I don't think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working. I think this economy is down because we built too many houses and the economy’s adjusting.

Dada suggests Bush might just want to consider declaring war on the whole damn Earth if war is so good for the economy. Certainly, with all the rumors of a recession going around, a Third World War might just be the ticket to American prosperity again. Certainly, historically it always been our best economic stimulus.

But yesterday as Bush reassured us the U.S. was not headed for a recession, he had the following conversation with a curious reporter as the price of oil settled well over $100/barrel and the cost of gasoline easily surpassed $4/gallon in San Mateo, CA:

Unleaded gas prices yesterday in San Mateo, CA.
AP photo by Paul Sakuma


Reporter to president Bush: "What's your advice to the average American who is hurting now, facing the prospect of $4 a gallon gasoline?"

Bush (the president seemed baffled): "Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4 a gallon gas?" was Bush's first response.

Reporter: "A number of analysts are predicting $4 a gallon gasoline this spring when they reformulate."

Bush: "That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."

Dada wonders about the last time Bush ever filled up his own gas tank. Dada wonders if Bush even knows how, or where to find the little hole the gas goes in?

2 comments:

D.K. Raed said...

"Dada suggests Bush might just want to consider declaring war on the whole damn Earth if war is so good for the economy" ...

Don't give him any ideas!

"This economy is down because we built too many houses" (????)

I don't know which is worse, his war ideas or his peace ideas. I guess war because it involves immediate death of individuals, whereas his peace ideas only involve the slow death of humanity.

I can't figure out how to link it & the URL is a mile long, but photobucket.com has an image called "assume the position" that seems the perfect answer to your query about Bush knowing where to find the little hole the gas goes in. You've probably seen it around. It involves a gas hose & a bent-over human.

LET'S TALK said...

I washed the news conference and just could not believe what this President was saying.

Is he asleep at the wheels or drinking again? Everyone knows that gas will more than likely be at $4.00 dollars a gallon soon and this guy had no clue.

Now I know why we are facing a recession!