01-21-2004, 05:08 PM
I don't doubt that the economy is largely independent of what the president does in some respects but to say that the president has no effect on the economy is ridiculous. We do not live in a socialist society. This is not a planned economy. This is a free market.
The president can do things to try to be a catalyst for the market. It will always be argued who was really responsible for what the ecomony does because it depends on so many factors and their effects may not be seen immediately. Politicians will argue back and forth who really is responsible for the economy.
By and large the president isn't even smart enough to understand what he can do to stimulate the economy outside of what his economic advisors tell him. He is soley interested in what will LOOK good and get him re-elected. The president is a politician, he wants your approval, if tax cuts will please you in the short term and the president is in the first term of his presidency, it may be in his best interest to band aid a problem so he can please you into a second term.
What is important is a plan. What is Bush's long term plan to deal with real economic problems like the bankruptcy of social security which we keep paying for but will never get the chance to cash in on and the massive deficit that our kids will wind up paying for. I don't hear the president coming up with any real answers for these problems, or should I say, his economic advisors arent coming up with them and/or he isnt communicating them to us.
The president can do things to try to be a catalyst for the market. It will always be argued who was really responsible for what the ecomony does because it depends on so many factors and their effects may not be seen immediately. Politicians will argue back and forth who really is responsible for the economy.
By and large the president isn't even smart enough to understand what he can do to stimulate the economy outside of what his economic advisors tell him. He is soley interested in what will LOOK good and get him re-elected. The president is a politician, he wants your approval, if tax cuts will please you in the short term and the president is in the first term of his presidency, it may be in his best interest to band aid a problem so he can please you into a second term.
What is important is a plan. What is Bush's long term plan to deal with real economic problems like the bankruptcy of social security which we keep paying for but will never get the chance to cash in on and the massive deficit that our kids will wind up paying for. I don't hear the president coming up with any real answers for these problems, or should I say, his economic advisors arent coming up with them and/or he isnt communicating them to us.