[dd74]

It's pretty low-hanging fruit and completely passe to blame Bush for jobs lost. He wasn't the cause, ridiculous investment in phantom economies was the cause - particularly tech. Couple that with corporate greed, illegal accounting, stolen pensions and 401Ks during Clinton's administration, and there you have it. If a captain needs to be blamed, it should be Clinton for more or less kissing Greenspan's hiney then turning the other way when Greenspan warned of the exuberance running rampant through Wall Street.

But one shouldn't blame Clinton either. He, like many others, knew no different. Americans were just ignorant at that time; investing more or less in intangibles like the internet and other forms of (firstly) unnecessary and (secondly) soon-to-be ubiquitous technology.

Bush's problem is more finite. He either doesn't want to lose face by declaring he has no clear objective with Iraq, or he believes intangibles such as "security" is enough for the voting public to swallow. He needs to be clearer, but because he isn't, it shows me that he and the Ad. aren't at all sure what they should do.

$87 billion, but to do what with? I'd like to know. "Security" isn't a definitive enough answer for me.