I haven't heard anything different yet from Bush the Third. Wow, the next decade with his leadership is going to be the greatest time of all times. He didn't say how he was going to stop the storms and droughts.
There really isn't anything new here except the words. It is Bush the Second all over again.
I think "Salon" got it right that the Republican Rule Book of Trickle Down Economics should be abandoned forever.
June 13, 2015
By David Madland
...Conard laughed (click here) along with the audience, and then launched into his
argument that great rewards for the “most talented” people were the
secret to America’s success. Making the rich richer is good for
everyone, he claimed, because high levels of inequality provide strong
incentives for risk taking and innovation that are essential for
economic growth....
...Though Conard’s comments were provocative—indeed his book tour generated
significant press, including a multipage feature in the New York Times
Magazine—he was merely stating the barely hidden premise underlying
supply-side economics. Supply-side economics, the misguided theory that
has controlled economic policymaking for the past three decades, is
built on the idea that inequality is good. Tax cuts for the rich and
less regulation of business supposedly provide incentives for the
wealthy to invest and work more. Enabling “job creators” to get richer
helps us all, the theory goes....
...The American economy has been thrown off balance because the middle
class is so weakened and inequality so high. An economy that works only
for the rich simply doesn’t work. To have strong and sustainable growth,
the economy needs to work for everyone....
Bush the Third sounded as though he was ready to launch into the next war in the Middle East with Israel at his side. It probably will be the only ally that will join him, so I suggest he start now to find his "Coalition of the Willing" before he takes office.
He wants to return to the "Bush Tax Cuts." That is only going to put the USA back where it was at the time of the Great Recession. The best policy to balancing a budget and reducing the deficit is to provide upward movement to all Americans. Such dynamics feeds the US Treasury and the debt it has occurred. Any idea to change that idea and cut taxes further only means our children will inherit problems rather than solutions.
The dialogue about Cuba was way out of the norm. The idea stated by Jeb sounds more of embargoes and/or war. The changes Cuba needs comes from domestic improvements to bring Cuba to a modern day economics that are enjoyed by all countries and all cultures. Maintaining a strangle hold on freedom as a word that is magical is delusional. All the oppressive standards were used with Cuba to no avail. The Republicans are all retro with no sincere answers. Bush the Third gave no real answers.
He stated he is a man of his word, so what's the word?
Bush the Third stated he was the ultimate DC outsider that would make the USA the economic Superpower. Four percent growth is something Wall Street appreciates and not Main Street. Main Street already knows it's market without dreaming of greater dividends. Main Street is actual labor and appreciation of their customers that live in the same community. It is a stretch for any Main Street to grasp how that is going to benefit them.
The four percent growth Bush talks of is the return of the Big Box store and the shuttering once again of Main Street.
One of the best reforms government has ever carried out was health insurance reform. It will remove a majority of bankruptcies. Yet there was nothing stated about health care.
Bush the third stated he as the ultimate outside will reject lobbyists. He is talking about the scandal of the "W" White House and Jack Abramoff. But, this is the reality of Jeb's insider status.
February 14, 2015
By Steve Eder and Michael Barbar
...The stream of requests to the White House from Jeb Bush,(click here) a young but well-connected Republican leader in South Florida, ranged
from the weighty and urgent to the parochial and mundane.
In
1985, he sent an emotional letter pressing his father, Vice President
George Bush, to investigate the detention of Cuban children in Texas,
asking, “Shouldn’t there be some compassion?” (The vice president’s
reply: “Heartbreaking.”)
In
1989, after his father became president, Mr. Bush offered his
recommendation for the next Supreme Court opening. (“Your suggestion
will be given thoughtful consideration,” a senior aide responded.)
In
1990, Mr. Bush lobbied the White House to meet with executives of the
telecommunications giant Motorola — fostering a relationship that would
later aid his own political ambitions. (The chief of staff did meet with
Motorola, as did President Bush.)
For
the 12 years that his father held national elective office, Mr. Bush
used his unique access to the highest reaches of government to seek
favors for Republican allies, push his views and burnish his political
profile in his home state, a review of presidential library records
shows. In the process, Mr. Bush carefully constructed an elaborate and
enduring network of relationships in Florida that helped lead to his
election as governor in 1998 and, now, to his place as a top contender
for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016....
It is just more of the same from Bush the Third. The ideological standards from decades past isn't an answer for the USA. It is not sustainable. Scary.
