Paulson brags on his delayer boss 3

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   prohb Posted 5:53 pm
   14 Jan 2009

   BushBush's only rule was to not do anything or provide any real leadership on this issue.  As the economic crisis has shown, the US, whether we or the rest of the world like it or not, is the economic engine that affects everyone on this planet.  What we invest in, what we show leadership in, what we do, what we build, sets the agenda for what the world creates as products.  Can you imagine where we would be right now in terms of hyrid cars and green technology if Gore had been president since 2000?

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   archigeek Posted 3:23 am
   15 Jan 2009

   Hmm...What the members of the Bush administration are now doing is precisely what the old Stalinists in the Soviet Union did in the past: to whit, change it. Yep, nothing like a little Soviet-style historical revisionism to cap off the the most authoritarian administration in our nations' history. Who knew these guys were secret admirers of Uncle Joe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? Ok, so the CCCP was more totalitarian, but hey, why quibble over the political disposition of moral degenerates.
   
   The mellotron is your friend.

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   Pompey Road Posted 3:51 am
   15 Jan 2009

   Damage control:Bush has cost us the moral high ground on not only the need to save the planet and quit living for the here and  now but his foreign policy and economic policy has totally discredited this country' leadership ability or right in regard to all of the above.  His super salesman Paulson presiding over the economic shell game that will take down the worlds economic system and selling us the Disney Land Wall Street bailout plan that will leave us with a worthless dollar and our grandchildren indebted to our lenders will be the news story of the century.  The damage this man has done to our credibility on environmental concerns, monetary or foreign affairs is irreparable. The economic situation he has left the country in will make it impossible for us to even address the environmental concerns that have an urgent need for responsible action now.
   The economy will dominate the next administrations total attention and will require all our borrowed treasury funds to keep the economy from falling into total collapse.  The billions already allocated to the Markets without any over sight will further erode the worlds confidence in our ability to take a leadership role on any issue. There has been no positive effect on the lending institutions to free up the capital needed for anything  much less carbon capture or sequestering. All the new alternative technology advances will need capital to bring them into fruition. The hyper inflation headed our way at some point caused by the trillions of borrowed dollars and directed to self serving banking and market institutions without any oversight will buy us  nothing but the image of an incompetent hollowed out ex super power with no credibility on any issue. Especially the environment that we are the major polluter of and the major reason no one will have the capital necessary to address global warming or anything else.
   We will not come out of this as the major market in the world. We will not come out of this as the country with the leadership role concerning fixing the environment. We have played the obstructionist to long.  I look to Europe and the European Union countries to find the economic and environmental model that will insure both economic growth and environmental standards that compliment each other.  It will be hard for anyone to take us serious anymore because we are still controlled by a corporate lobby that will hang on to tradition and sell it to our governmental officials. What money we borrow for the economic recovery will be corporate lobby influenced to sustain the status quo.
   
   
   
   The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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