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| President Bush; questions about the economy | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 15 2006, 08:54 AM (80 Views) | |
| pianojerome | May 15 2006, 08:54 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It seems that one of the areas in which Bush is and has been severely criticized (and praised) is the economy, and I have a few questions to ask regarding the legitimacy of the criticism and praise. A few days ago I listened to a speech by a gouvernetorial candidate in Michigan. He talked mostly about Michigan's relatively poor economy, and about his proposed courses of action to deal with this problem (mostly in terms of increasing education). When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, the state government was allegedly relatively slow to react (I don't know the details, but this is what I have heard). The federal government allegedly immediately sent in aid, and other states sent in aid, but the state government itself most likely was responsible for a lot of the initial scenes, for better and for worse. There are 50 states, and each state has its own governor, and each governor has his or her own administration, which is concerned every day with its own state economy. There is the House of Representatives and the Senate at the federal level, and the the rest of the president's administration. ~~~ My first question is: How much praise or criticism (what sorts of praise or criticism) does the president -- whomever he may be -- really logically deserve regarding the national economy, when there are hundreds of others who are intimately involved in either the overall national economy and/or the individual state economies? It is also true that our nation's economy is -- and has been for the last century -- very intimately involved in the global economy, in the economies of other nations and organizations around the world. It is evident that we are not in total control of our own economy, and that our economy is controlled to a certain extent by the economies and legislative decisions by numerous countries and organizations around the world. ~~~ My second question is: How strong is our national and state reliance on other economies around the world, and given this influence, how much praise or criticism (what kinds of praise or criticism) does the president -- whomever he may be -- and the hundreds of others who are intimately involved in either the overall national economy and/or the individual state economies really logically deserve regarding our national economy? |
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