bush: "It's been a good year for the American people" he really said it

[mopaul]

i just saw him say it with his own mouth hole on my t.v. machine. he actually, really said it, i swear.

[Lyle]

1. Yes - if by "American people" he meant...

...defense contractors and oil companies. Sure! Its been a fantastic year!

[swimmernsecretsea]

2. I simply have no words. nt

[mattclearing]

3. "...and a bad year for me." n/t

[texpatriot2004]

4. NO IT HAS NOT! Not for this American or my family! nm

[acmejack]

5. Apparently he hasn't seen the New Orleans poll numbers!

[indepat]

6. "2001 was a good for Laura and me" didn't W say?

[robbedvoter]

12. No. What he said was "fabulous year" Know your "W"ocabulary

[indepat]

17. Need to beef up on my "W"ocabulary and memory

;)

[Obamanaut]

7. Then why don't I feel safer or more secure or more prosperous or

more anything except more concerned? I'm an 'American people' but I must not have gotten the 'good year' memo. Drat!

[MaineDem]

8. I had just turned the tv on

I heard him say it, too.

My husband came in to see why I was screaming.

Stupid, arrogant little dictator! (Bush not my husband.)

[Rex]

9. In Boosh's world, blacks don't count as people.

Only the lily white count to the BFEE and then you also have to be ultra-rich and immoral. A pinch of self-righteousness and two pounds of hate.

[lpbk2713]

10. We need no further proof of how out of touch with reality he is.

He and all the other RWers live in a parallel universe with their own concept of reality.

[Rex]

14. I heard that FEMA will downgrade Katrina to a Cat 3 storm

right before it made landfall. The levee system was supposed to be able to withstand a cat3, so now they have rewritten history and covered their asses. Boosh does not live in a parallel universe, he live in ours and willfully causes harm to America and the world. We let him and then he says unbelievable shit like this.

[leftchick]

11. it has been a good year for very rich amerikan people

:(

[FormerOstrich]

13. I haven't had a good year since he took office....

at least I do have a job now, even though I am super paranoid I'll lose it and hopefully my paranoia doesn't become a self fulfilling prophecy. So I work twelve hour days and neglect everything else. But I'm really sunk if I lose the job it took so long to find one and things are catching up with me. anyway.......

The other day we had a client in our office. The client told us they had just laid off nearly a third of the company (almost 300 people...ho ho ho..Merry Christmas). Later in the meeting the same client mentioned that thier sales were up 15% this year and profits by 10%!!!! They are setting higher goals for the upcoming year. Now, the pre-* me would have have not given much thought to it. The post * me immediately blurted out before I could stop it..really I can see why you needed to lay off those 300 people. Geez did I ever get a dirty look and the room silent. Then I remembered how desperately I need the job and I clamped my mouth shut.

How messed up is that? This company isn't rebounding from a downturn or anything they have been profitable for years. I guess 10% is too modest for them but damn at what point does the value of being utilitarian exceed the value of an increase in profit?

[iconoclastNYC]

15. Except....

People who make under $350,000
People who work for a living
People in unions
Anyone in NOLA
1,000 or so dead servicemembers and thier families

yeah you're doing a "heck of job" dubya

[LibDemAlways]

16. He needs to qualify that.

It was certainly not a good year for families who lost loved ones or had loved ones come home wounded in his illegal war in Iraq. It was not a good year for people devastated by Katrina and other natural disasters. It was not a good year for people who lost jobs thanks to downsizing, plant closures, and outsourcing. It was not a good year for families who lost their life savings and/or homes because of a medical crisis they couldn't afford. It was not a good year for the homeless and the working poor who are one rent payment away from the street. It was not a good year for workers who saw their pensions slashed by corporate greed. It was not a good year for anyone who put gasoline in the tank or opened a winter heating bill. It was not a good year for seniors forced to choose between food and medicine and the millions of children who also live in poverty.

How dare this S.O.B., who lives in a protective bubble and never comes face to face with ordinary people, spew such bullshit. If anything, it's been a crappy year for the American people, and only destined to get crappier under his watch.