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Bush: World coming together
The Hill ^ | 11 Oct 2008 | Ian Swanson and Manu Raju

Posted on 10/11/2008 8:50:55 AM PDT by BGHater

World leaders are coming together to take decisive action to help a faltering world economy rocked by a credit crisis and unnerved by plunging global stock markets, accoring to President Bush.

In a Rose Garden address shortly before 8 a.m., Bush pledged that the economy would emerge stronger as a result of the actions taken by G7 nations.

“I'm confident the world's major economies can overcome the challenges we face,” said Bush, backed by Treasury Sectretary Henry Paulson and other G7 finance ministers. “We're in this together. We'll come through this together.”

He said the G7 nations had agreed to a plan of action that would help “systemically important financial institutions and prevent their failure.” He also said countries had agreed to provide “robust protection” for bank deposits and were taking steps to ensure capitol could be raised.

“There have been moments of crisis in the past whens powerful nations turned their energies against each other or sought to wall themselves off from the world. This time is different,” Bush said.

Bush also went through the steps Washington has taken to try to calm markets and provide liquidity to the economy, including the $700 billion bailout bill approved by Congress and signed by Bush just more than a week ago.

“These extraordinary efforts are being implemented as quickly and as effectively as possible,” Bush said. “The benefits will not be realized overnight. But as these actions take effect they will help restore stability to our markets and confidence to our financial institutions.”

The speech comes hours after Paulson announced the government would use a portion of the $700 billion to buy equity in financial institutions in order to inject them with cash. Treasury initially had resisted this move, but apparently shifted in response to the markets that have continued to fall since the bailout was approved. Great Britain announced a similar plan this week.

Bush mentioned the purchase of equity as one of the steps the government was taking. He also said G7 leaders would work in cooperation with large developing countries. Finance ministers from around the world are in Washington this weekend for annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Behind the scenes, the Bush administration is trying to keep industry leaders and senior members of Congress apprised of its efforts to stabilize the markets and implement the $700-billion financial bailout package enacted this month. The administration convened a conference call Friday afternoon to update lobbyists on the market volatility and the state of the economy, but no new policy initiatives were discussed, according to one participant on the call.

In his weekly radio address on Friday, Bush moved to calm jittery investors after the worst week in the 112-year history of the Dow Jones industrial average.

Bush said the Dow's 22-percent drop over the last eight trading days was "startling," citing "uncertainty" and "fear" as the driving forces behind the steep decline.

Bush said the government is moving on multiple fronts, citing the Federal Reserve's decision this week to cut interest rates, a new program to boost the commercial-paper market, an increase in government-backed insurance for checking and savings accounts, a Securities and Exchange Commission initiative to crack down on manipulation of the stock market and a plan to slow down the rate of home foreclosures.

"In the short term, we'll continue to face challenges," Bush said. "But in the long run, Americans have reason to be confident. We have the strongest and most resilient economy in the world."

Bush said the department would implement the new law to have "maximum impact as quickly as possible."

"Seven hundred billion dollars is a significant amount of money," Bush said, "and as we act, we will do it in an effective way."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bush; business; economy; financialcrisis; g7; g7summit; geopolitics; globaleconomy; globalism; newworldorder; world

1 posted on 10/11/2008 8:50:56 AM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater

One big socialist family. New World Order signed, sealed, and delivered by the Bush son.


2 posted on 10/11/2008 8:53:07 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: BGHater

One big socialist family. New World Order signed, sealed, and delivered by the Bush son.


3 posted on 10/11/2008 8:53:11 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: BGHater

GREAT ONE WORLD ORDER...I THINK I’LL START READING MY BIBLE MORE AND I THINK WE ALL SHOULD GET TO KNOW GOD A LITTLE BETTER!


4 posted on 10/11/2008 8:53:20 AM PDT by Texas4ever (!WHO IS OBAMA?)
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To: BGHater
World leaders are coming together to take decisive action to help a faltering world economy rocked by a credit crisis and unnerved by plunging global stock markets, accoring to President Bush.

Sounds good to me.

Or, better yet, maybe we could all get our own personal barcode tattooed on our foreheads and wrists and nobody could engage in any sort of commerce unless he or she has such a tattoo.

5 posted on 10/11/2008 8:54:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas4ever

I don’t know about you, but I’m praying more these days than I ever have in my life.


6 posted on 10/11/2008 8:55:18 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: Texas Eagle
Or, better yet, maybe we could all get our own personal barcode tattooed on our foreheads and wrists and nobody could engage in any sort of commerce unless he or she has such a tattoo.

I get tears in my eyes reading this, it is happening before our eyes. God help us.

7 posted on 10/11/2008 8:56:37 AM PDT by alicewonders (Sarah Palin is the face of America's future.)
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To: VictoryGal

I think rapture is closer than I thought. Look up! For your redemption draweth nigh...


8 posted on 10/11/2008 8:56:49 AM PDT by queenkathy (Pray 4 Josh... www.carepages.com ( joshuaourwarrior) brain injury from allergy shot)
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To: BGHater

“I love it when a plan comes together....”

From the sitcom action show “A-Team”, attributed to Hannibal Smith.

Most of the time, there was no plan. They were just making it up as they went along.

Which may be the situation with the “bail-out”. Listening to people with their hair on fire is not rational behavior.


9 posted on 10/11/2008 8:57:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (Just because you are a target, does not mean you have to be a victim.)
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To: BGHater

Yeah! A regular one-world hootnanny!”


10 posted on 10/11/2008 8:59:21 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Arguing with a Liberal is like not wiping yourself after taking a dump" Scatological, but true.)
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To: VictoryGal
"One big socialist family. New World Order signed, sealed, and delivered by the Bush son."

It does seem like the whole "CFR" "New World Order" and those other things of George H. W. Bush that were considered 'conspiracy theories' by the kook fringe and the tin-foil-hats as they called those who kept harping on this can now 'nee-ner-nee-ner-nee-ner' to all the nay-sayers and scoffers.

In this past year it's as if George W. Bush has transformed himself into something I no longer recognize.

No matter who is elected, G.W.B. is making sure that what he leaves behind will be a country that I never thought I would live to see and live in.

11 posted on 10/11/2008 9:02:36 AM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: BGHater

“Sure is getting warm in this pot of water” said one frog to another.


12 posted on 10/11/2008 9:05:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: BGHater

We needed a Reagan and got a Wilson.


13 posted on 10/11/2008 9:06:29 AM PDT by ikka
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To: BGHater

"We will do what it takes to resolve this crisis. And the world's economy will emerge stronger as a result," Bush said.

"We must ensure the actions of one country do not contradict or undermine the actions of another," Bush said. "In our interconnected world, no nation will gain by driving down the fortunes of another. We're in this together. We will come through it together."

14 posted on 10/11/2008 9:07:47 AM PDT by BGHater (The GOP, the new DNC.)
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To: VictoryGal

The scent of vaseline is heavy in the air.


15 posted on 10/11/2008 9:08:40 AM PDT by Be_Politically_Erect (If I didn't think he'd get emotionally attached to it, I'd tell Obama to kiss my A** !)
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To: Geist Krieger

> No matter who is elected, G.W.B. is making sure that what he leaves behind will be a country that I never thought I would live to see and live in.

Agreed: even a Reagan would have a hard time digging us out of this hole. And even in the best scenario, can you imagine McCain fixing this? I’m sorry, but I can’t.

Bush is heading for a historical legacy of a Jimmy Carter level of bad. The man who threw our country to the socialists. Who would have thought it would be a Republican? I feel really, really betrayed.


16 posted on 10/11/2008 9:09:22 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: BGHater

Better get ready, for He is coming back soon.

One world goverment, all countries coming together.

USA is gone.

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, look up for our redemption in near!


17 posted on 10/11/2008 9:09:33 AM PDT by GulfWar1Vet (God, guns and Sarah Palin. Am I White Trash or what? :<D)
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To: VictoryGal

A thread started yesterday but It did confirm for me, what I have been feeling in my spirit....

God said....2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

How do we do this? We recognize God is in control, we have no authority but by His name. Pray, seek and we will find the answers. Fear is not from God...confusion is not from God....Peace...and I mean peace that is unshakeable is from God...but that doesnt come from watching the news and writing on blogs, although I confess I do a lot...that only comes by hearing from the word....

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. [Philippians 4:8,9]

Make the word of God a daily part of your life...like brushing your teeth(only in habit) Church is good but God wants a relationship...I make a cup of Java and meet with Him every morning.. I read the Proverbs of that day like today I read Proverbs 11. Then a couple chapters in the Gospel....then I let God know what is bothering me and then I breath..............

GOD IS GOOD!


18 posted on 10/11/2008 9:09:51 AM PDT by Texas4ever (!WHO IS OBAMA?)
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To: BGHater
"Seven hundred billion dollars is a significant amount of money," Bush said, "and as we act, we will do it in an effective way."

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." ---Senator Everett Dirksen

How soon we forget....

Sen Dirksen: "If some people get any cheer out of a $328 billion debt ceiling, I do not find much to cheer about concerning it." [Congressional Record, June 16, 1965, p. 13884].

and this favorite of Sen Dirksen regarding "potholes":

"As I think of this bill, and the fact that the more progress we make the deeper we go into the hole, I am reminded of a group of men who were working on a street. They had dug quite a number of holes. When they got through, they failed to puddle or tamp the earth when it was returned to the hole, and they had a nice little mound, which was quite a traffic hazard.

"Not knowing what to do with it, they sat down on the curb and had a conference. After a while, one of the fellows snapped his fingers and said, ‘I have it. I know how we will get rid of that overriding earth and remove the hazard. We will just dig the hole deeper.'" [Congressional Record, June 16, 1965, p. 13884].

19 posted on 10/11/2008 9:11:41 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: BGHater

“World leaders are coming together.....”

Great, Jorge!....A giant one world fluster cuck!


20 posted on 10/11/2008 9:11:58 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: BGHater
Don't be played a fool by people trying to pin "one world government" on Republicans.

It's not just the extreme right who are in on it...there are three legs to the beast....Communism, Islamic extremism and Freedom. As is proved by history...if Communism teams up with Islamics...Islamics defeat them in the end. If Communism teams up with Freedom...Freedom is defeated in the end without a blood bath. It has played over and over on the world stage.

Always remember the equation... A liberal Commie and an Islamic extremist together on a Freeman = Islamic extremist rule.

21 posted on 10/11/2008 9:13:31 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: Earthdweller
It's not just the extreme right who are in on it

Gosh I should hope not since it's the "extreme right" who are usually called conspiracy theorists who for claiming it's happening.
22 posted on 10/11/2008 9:16:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: VictoryGal
This tacked on to the “global climate crisis response force” has me pasting my tin foil on a little tighter as well. We are running toward this post-national era at a sprint. I don't think I want to link 666 forehead barcodes with my Godless European brethren at this point.
23 posted on 10/11/2008 9:17:29 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (95% of the Obama bumper stickers reside in public school parking lots....scary)
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To: BGHater

He means, the New World Order is finally coming together.

Now he can leave the white house knowing he accomplished his Daddy’s goal.


24 posted on 10/11/2008 9:18:31 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: BGHater
Bush: World coming together

Kumbaya.

25 posted on 10/11/2008 9:18:48 AM PDT by NetSurfer (BO stinks.)
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To: Earthdweller

What if the major players view radical Islam as an obstacle to this one world govt?? Do you think they want to play ball in this world?


26 posted on 10/11/2008 9:19:37 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (95% of the Obama bumper stickers reside in public school parking lots....scary)
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To: Earthdweller

Except the communists have teamed up with the capitalists and have given America over to corporate communism.

A Chinese commie and a republican president equals corporate communist rule. That’s why Paulson was calling for a ‘collective’ response to the ‘crisis’ yesterday, if you heard him speak.


27 posted on 10/11/2008 9:20:39 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

My parents taught me that Satan would not show himself as an ugly, scary demon - but as an nice, trustworthy “friend”. Satan knows we wouldn’t fall for someone with all his warts exposed, he knows we would fall for someone presenting himself as a conservative Christian man of God, like Bush did. Eve wouldn’t have eaten the apple if it had been rotten and full of worms - it was the most beautiful fruit in the garden.


28 posted on 10/11/2008 9:23:08 AM PDT by alicewonders (Sarah Palin is the face of America's future.)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
"What if the major players view radical Islam as an obstacle to this one world govt?? Do you think they want to play ball in this world?"

They all see each other as obstacles to their global plans...Islamics have a plan for one world as well. Us peons just get to be used as pons in one of the three legs of the beast.

29 posted on 10/11/2008 9:32:19 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: VictoryGal
Remember the days of warnings about "The Trilateral Commission"??

The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, established to foster closer cooperation between America, Europe and Japan. It was founded in July 1973, at the initiative of David Rockefeller; who was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations. He pushed the idea of including Japan at the Bilderberg meetings he was attending but was rebuffed. Along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and a few other people, including individuals from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations [CFR] and the Ford Foundation, he convened initial meetings out of which grew the Trilateral organization.

Members:
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
John B. Anderson
Alan Greenspan
Paul Volcker
Bruce Babbit
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Dick Cheney
Warrne Christopher
Hank Cisneros
Bill Clinton
William Cohen
John Danforth
Lawrence Eagleburger
Diane Feinstein

The list goes on and on. if you look it up on Wikipedia. All who warned against this kept getting shot down as 'area 51' nuts and kooks. But, it seems that they could see the writing on the wall just like the prophet Daniel.

30 posted on 10/11/2008 9:43:23 AM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: hedgetrimmer
"Except the communists have teamed up with the capitalists and have given America over to corporate communism.'

So now if you remember the equations...what happens next is that the Commies take over America (freedom is defeated) and the Islamics come in and scoop up the spoils....

The only way out at this point is horrific unless we can defeat Communism before it completely takes over. It's roots were planted decades ago and it's robots are now in power.

Yuri Bezmenov on the liberal enablers,

“He will refuse to believe [the Communist plan for America] until he gets a kick in his fat bottom....[There will be ] psychological shock at what the beautiful [social justice] society will mean...they will become dissidents...they will be shot like cockroaches...nobody is going to pay them for their beautiful noble ideas...”

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1

31 posted on 10/11/2008 9:43:50 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: BGHater

Tower of Babel part 2.

(Babel is associated with Babylon which in scripture is always associated with rebellion against God and prideful arrogance in not turning to HIM but rather leaning on Man’s wisdom-which is foolishness in the sight of God.)


32 posted on 10/11/2008 9:59:17 AM PDT by 444Flyer (Marriage=1 man+1 woman! Vote "YES" on Prop 8, amend the Calif. State Constitution this November.)
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To: Be_Politically_Erect

The scent of vaseline is heavy in the air.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Vote Ben Dover into office!


33 posted on 10/11/2008 11:04:26 AM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: BGHater

I wonder how Pooty likes not being part of this clam bake? Maybe there will be discussions about Russia.


34 posted on 10/11/2008 11:36:08 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Nyet-Bama)
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To: BGHater

Who is missing from that photo?


35 posted on 10/11/2008 11:38:40 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Nyet-Bama)
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To: VictoryGal
"New World Order signed, sealed, and delivered by the Bush son.

Terrifying, isn't it? Who would have thought that the man who stood up on 9/11 could turn into the lame duck president who did absolutely nothing productive during his last four years in office?

If I had a tinfoil hat, I'd swear someone has something on him and is pulling his strings like a puppeteer.

I KNOW this is not Barbara's son.

36 posted on 10/11/2008 11:49:13 AM PDT by LakeLady (I was my mama's October surprise!!!! /Defeat Nobama /Bidet)
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To: BGHater

Bush has done more damage to this party than all the MSM combined.

The man is clueless. Simply the worst thing to ever have happened to the Conservative movement.


37 posted on 10/11/2008 11:54:59 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Sara Palin; The Orca in a bay of Democrat Belugas!)
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To: VictoryGal; BGHater
One big socialist family. New World Order signed, sealed, and delivered by the Bush son.

I gotta agree with you. Given our capacity for "getting it wrong," I looked forward to a new world order like I do a root canal. While it will certainly begin with the best of intentions, how long before it transmogrifies into an impersonal, cruel bureaucracy that finally exists primarily to expand and maintain itself?

There is nothing new under the sun. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

38 posted on 10/11/2008 1:20:07 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Will Bush, Bernanke or Paulson let Uncle Sam handle their personal wealth?)
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To: Geist Krieger
But, it seems that they could see the writing on the wall just like the prophet Daniel.

No real prophet was ever welcomed in his own time. (sigh)

39 posted on 10/11/2008 1:22:49 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Will Bush, Bernanke or Paulson let Uncle Sam handle their personal wealth?)
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To: LakeLady
Terrifying, isn't it? Who would have thought that the man who stood up on 9/11 could turn into the lame duck president who did absolutely nothing productive during his last four years in office?

Careful. You'll be accused of Bush Derangement Syndrome for speaking the truth.

40 posted on 10/11/2008 1:26:08 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Will Bush, Bernanke or Paulson let Uncle Sam handle their personal wealth?)
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To: E. Cartman

Oh heck, I’ll willingly plead guilty to BDS if, as you say, that is what they call speaking the truth. I guess I shouldn’t let my disappointment in him shine through so shamelessly. ;0)


41 posted on 10/11/2008 2:29:39 PM PDT by LakeLady (I was my mama's October surprise!!!! /Defeat Nobama /Bidet)
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