{"id":4592,"date":"2008-01-25T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:50:22","slug":"is-the-bush-stimulus-going-to-help-you-no-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/is-the-bush-stimulus-going-to-help-you-no-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Bush Stimulus Going to Help You? NO NO NO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bushx-large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bushx-large.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By <\/strong><strong>Nomi Prins<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>The Wip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rhetoric surrounding George W. Bush&#8217;s economic stimulus package, as boastfully &#8220;bi-partisan&#8221; as it is (we are, after all, in an election year), indicates a complete lack of comprehension of the difference between this &#8216;national&#8217; economy and the &#8216;people&#8217;s&#8217; economy, and the extent of the gap between the two.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of his plan was classic Bush: state something ambiguous about a $140 billion adrenaline shot, then have your cronies act as wingmen. Hence, at last Friday&#8217;s press conference, Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO, Hank Paulson was left fending off uncomfortable questions like: would the plan help &#8220;elderly people on fixed incomes?&#8221; His <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080121182141\/http:\/\/ap.google.com:80\/article\/ALeqM5hdJB2Uebb9qpYDcf06Uuus04JIjQD8U8FTV01\">answer<\/a>: &#8220;The Christmas season has come and gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The national economy, as measured by large scale figures simply does not represent individual citizens&#8217; economic circumstances. That&#8217;s why debate over whether we are in a recession or not misses the point of everyday financial realities for most of the population. According to the standard definition of recession (two quarters or more of a decline in GDP), we&#8217;re not there. In which case, Bush and Paulson are technically right in saying the economy is simply &#8216;slow&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But, that&#8217;s been far from the case if we consider the people&#8217;s economy (the people &#8211; as in all the American citizens who don&#8217;t fall into that upper percent of the nation&#8217;s wealth bracket). And very little in the President&#8217;s, or in most of the presidential candidates&#8217; plans, will change this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130504140500\/http:\/\/thewip.net\/contributors\/2008\/01\/will_bushs_stimulus_package_wo.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nomi Prins, The Wip The rhetoric surrounding George W. 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