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Bush talks up economy in Stafford visit Bush interacts with Rotary members in Stafford County appearance
BY EMILY BATTLE
President Bush stood in the dining room of the Yak-a-Doos restaurant on U.S. 17 in Stafford County yesterday and asked Congress not to raise taxes. He pledged before the Stafford Rotary club to veto any tax increase sent to his desk. His half-hour speech touched on the economy, the housing market, health care and energy. "There's quite an appetite for your money in Washington," Bush told the group of 85 members of area Rotary clubs and the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce. The president was optimistic about the country's economy, but acknowledged that the credit and housing crises pose challenges. With those problems, he said, "The most negative thing that Congress can do is to raise taxes on the American people." Before his remarks, Bush joked that people were probably wondering why the president "would bother to come to a place out in the country." Before his arrival, Washington journalists who had come down for the event were puzzling over what dateline to put on their stories, since the Holiday Inn where Bush spoke lies outside of Fredericksburg, but not really in any town in Stafford County. Bush said the setting was important "because this is where jobs are created. It kind of reminds me of being in Texas, to come to a place where it's just down-to-earth people." Those "down-to-earth people" had to sit down to lunch at 10 in the morning, an hour and 20 minutes before Bush arrived, to hear his speech. The president flew by helicopter into Stafford Regional Airport and rode in a motorcade to the Holiday Inn. Bush took questions from audience members after his speech, be he didn't always have an answer. When local financial planner Kate Hopper asked Bush to make a prediction about how the markets would fare in 2008, he looked dead ahead and said, "No." "I don't think you want your president opining on whether the Dow Jones is going up or down," he said. "If I were an investor, I would be looking at the basic fundamentals of the economy." When asked how the region could get more money for transportation, Bush denounced congressional earmarks, political tools sometimes called "pork," which pump money into specific projects all over the country.
Read more stories about Stafford Date published: 12/18/2007
I see exactly what 'talking heads in the media' have to do with ownership of an oil company like (now defunct) Harken Energy.
Yep, I did get your point, but you missed mine. Oil company's are owned by many people. If you own stock/401Ks/IRAs or any one of a number of retirement funds, then you to can be an owner of the oil companys you mentioned.
The talking heads owned (and subsequently ruined) oil companies? I think you missed my point entirely.
If we are too dependent, then all of the talking heads in the media have to be in the same boat as the President since they have been stating this for the last 3 or 4 years. As for Bushwacked I see nothing in the artical to back up his hate speach against the seating President. If you do not like him just wait one more year then you can attack the next one as Bush is not going to be around anymore.
Being told "We're too dependent on oil from overseas" by President Bush is like having a crack head tell you you have a drug problem.
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