Bush: Bad news? Ain’t no bad news!
Anthropologists sifting thru the ashes of our history will wonder if his serfs laughed or cried while King George ground a once mighty nation into dust:
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators
The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsened. Conservatives have attempted to deflect attention from the crisis, by blaming the media’s negative coverage and insisting the United States is not headed toward a recession, despite what economists are predicting. Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards. As Forbes explains, the government site provides an invaluable service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data.
The Bush administration’s latest move is to simply hide the data…The Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of “budgetary constraints,” effective March 1. </em>
Bush recently submitted the largest budget in our nation’s history, topping $3 trillion for the first time. But somehow in all that spending, all that funding for antiquated weapons systems, kickbacks to energy companies and, let’s face it, just pure graft, he couldn’t find a few bucks to maintain a website.
Laugh, or cry?
