The Bush Boom

Wall Street Journal (Subscription) ^ | September 15, 2003 | Brian S. Wesbury

[null and void]

By the way...I was in an AOL Bash Bush Chatroom the other day. They aren't even clever enough to know the term "Bushbot", they call us Bush Robots.

I suppose it's better than Bush Licker... YIKES!!! Did I mash "Post"?!?!

[freeparoundtheclock]

The Florida freepers are too busy trying to save Terri Schiavo's life. She represents the slippery slope of providing euthanasia services to disabled Americans instead of simply terminal patients. It's happening in Pinellas County, FL. She is technically disabled and will be killed.

Anyone who wants to help Terri Schiavo who's set to be starved to death beginning 10-15-03 at 2:00 p.m., please ping kimmie7 to get on Terri's Ping List.

[freeparoundtheclock]

Joe, this thread needs your Bushbot jpeg at your convenience of course.

[Diverdogz]

I'm telling you, it really is hard to tell what the economy is doing here on the Emerald Coast of Florida. Lots of people are jobless and many are making much less then they had previously, and yet, brand new condos are being erected and are selling like hotcakes - all in the $300,000 range.

Can't help but notice all of the Mexicans working as construction workers. I don't know if they are illegals or not, but the work is getting done. The general contractors manage these projects very carefully and won't put up with slouch workers.

So, what is happening here may be an anomoly - if people decide to forego more expensive vacations, it could actually be a boon for the Emerald Coast as this is a great place to come, but a much less expensive vacation option than the Carribean or even South Florida.

[ovrtaxt]

What are your talents? Start a business. Mine is doing VERY well right now, and I employ a few others along the way.

[gooleyman]

"As far as the tax cut goes, every penny of mine was transfered to higher property & sales taxes and car/home insurance rates."

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Just as an organization rots from the top, it also heals from the top. My meaning: Now that we have someone who who is actually reducing taxes at the very top of Government, it is also time to start electing people who will reduce taxes at the State and Local levels too. I get into this with my wife all the time. President Bush has nothing to do with Local taxes going up. Get those liberals out of your local Government and elect some Conservative who will not raise taxes as a first resort. Do you think if the Federal Government raised taxes, that the Locals will reduce them or leave them unchanged? Think again. That's just an excuse they are using to raise taxes. In fact, to a liberal, any excuse is an good one to raise taxes.

I know first hand of what I speak. My town is so far Democrat that at primary time, out of about 40 voting booths, only 3 (three) are reserved for the Republican primary.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Film at ..... er wait a minute this is good news?

ok joe recall the film crew and find that kid that got stuck in the drainpipe last year we need more gloom and doom

Damn that bush and his tax cuts

/sarcasm off

BuMpS Up

[eldoradude]

Cigarette taxes are high so that meathead's loser friends can make a lot of money making a bunch of stupid ads that lie about smoking.

I don't pay Calestinian cigarette taxes. I make my own...fresher, I pack them as tight as I want to...and I get real flavor, not some mass marketed tasteless crap in a tube.

[Samwise]

and why Kennedy went beserk last Thursday.

Minor correction. Ted Kennedy went berserk many, many years ago.

[maui_hawaii]

When the time is right I will definately start my own.

As for what my education/talents are...I speak, read, and write Chinese and can translate up to level 3 (out of 5).

I have studied and worked in international management. (I reported directly to the regional CFO of a American big corporation in Asia)

I currently do banking and other financial services stuff.

[ovrtaxt]

Wow, that's impressive. I'm just a lighting designer. You could make your own economy!

[maui_hawaii]

None the less, its not a boom until the job market reflects it.

[NYC Republican]

bump for later read

[maui_hawaii]

Right now I essentially would analyse the heck out of a company and tell them "you've been losing money and marketshare"...

They knew that before they hired me...

Seriously though, I do have my own thing in the works...When the time is right I will.

Based on my experiences though going into business isn't a walk in the park. Especially for the kinds of things and the kinds of people I work for...

[Ciexyz]

Gee I didn't read any of this good news in my liberal local paper.

[Reagan Man]

With the US economy making larger gains then expected in GDP growth and more posiitve economic numbers overall, the Demlibs will have to concentrate more on discrediting the President with the war in Iraq. I don't see that working either. As daily events become less chaotic in Iraq, the Demlibs will have to think up something else to attack the President on. This is a never ending cycle for the out of power crowd.

[Conservomax]

It is true. The numbers are accurate, even the bad part about job growth which will be harped on by the dems come 04. The economy could have record growth in 04, but the press and the dems will still say it is like a depression which will be a bald face lie. Too many people will believe it though.

[Conservomax]

Cigarettes are so expensive not because of inflation, but taxes. why? Because it is a neuvo social ill. Smokers are being viciously targeted by the nanny sate for their addiction when junkies get free needles and methadone. It is shameful.

[Conservomax]

Jobs are always the last thing to turn. Businesses need to be making money for people to be hired, That can only happen if consumer spending goes up, which it has - once the labor market gets tight, a boom happens, everyone has money, inflation goes up, then interest rates, then people stop spending money, businesses start to lose and people get laid off.

That's life in a cyclical economy.

[null and void]

None the less, its not a boom until the job market reflects it.

True, but job creation is late in the cycle. Employers are reluctant to create new jobs until they are sure they will last. It's painful to lay people off if it's a temporary blip. Instead they'll work the survivors until they can give no more - and the survivors, having had their shoulders recently brushed by the wings of the Angel of Economic Death, will work very hard inded to save their jobs. (They all know former co-workers how haven't been able to find a job in months/years).

Many jobs AREN'T coming back. EVER. But there will be more jobs created, some pretty good, some pretty minimal

The big question is will it be in time to save Dubya? If not, we are all in really big trouble...