Bush acknowledges the collapsing US economy

Pravda ^ | today | Sergei Melinin

[Paleo Conservative]

There's no news in Pravda.

[RGSpincich]

Sounds like a retread to me.

[Euro-American Scum]

Typical PRAVDA.

Quit insulting Pravda.

[ryan71]

Jesus!

If you don't have a freakin' story, make one up!

[zeebee]

I think spending government $$ on highways is one of the best uses for taxpayer money. The money is going right back to the workers and transportation is key to a growing economy.

[bdfromlv]

not to mention absorbing 11 million illegals aliens

[bdfromlv]

not to mention absorbing 11 million illegals aliens

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

"No need to send us CARE packages, Sergei. Our biggest problem among the "poor" in the US is obesity."

LOL

In the article:
"There were 9.3 million unemployed American citizens..."

Hey Putin, there are 300 million people in the US, plus legal aliens working under the table, and only 9.3 million can't find a job. Doesn't sound so bad.

This article is straight up Soviet propaganda.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

This writer is a knucklehead, even by Pravda standards.

His distortions of facts will not convince anyone not limited to his brand of "reporting" that the U.S. economy is on a similar path as Russia's disastrous experiment.

It might, however, get him for a job with the New York Times.

[Always Right]

Hey Putin, there are 300 million people in the US, plus legal aliens working under the table, and only 9.3 million can't find a job. Doesn't sound so bad.

And 8 million of those would not work unless you put a gun to their head.

[satchmodog9]

While I agree that it is a good way to spend taxpayer money, there is still so much waste and theft involved. Road projects are over bid and given to politically connected companies. Roads are made of substandard materials that wear out almost at the same time a five year too long project is completed. Road closings due to construction cause more economic damage due to traffic jams that may harm local business and create more traffic in areas that get run off from alternate routes being taken by commuters. People wind up sitting in traffic for hours at a time wasting fuel and valuable time while waiting for a project to be completed. Road work is one of the biggest scams our governments burn us with each year. It is a necessary part of keeping the economy rolling, but it should be done in a more taxpayer and driver friendly manner.

[varon]

Of course, the author does not understand the nature of Pork,

of course much of it is Pork and the political muggers wouldn't be doing their job if it wasn't but it can't be denied that it also can be seen as 'priming the pump' ..................

[JasonC]

Shows complete incomprehension of his subject matter. He doesn't know the size of the US economy, let alone its state. Nor the budget of the US government, its role in the US economy, or the long tradition of transportation pork barrel spending etc. Just incredibly provincial and stupid.

[DoughtyOne]

No wonder. The LA Times is disgustingly recognized as the Pravda of the Pacific by those who have been exposed to it's filth long enough.

[CyberAnt]

"... Bush virtually acknowledged that the USA was experiencing a serious economic crisis."


Let me tell you people .. if our President had made such a statement .. the leftist media would have been all over it and it would have been front page news.

[Wuli]

The primary thing to take note of is how much Pravda has devolved back to its USSR mode.

I always thought Gorbechev had it half-right. He needed to develop the political infrastructure for Democracy and a multi-party system, not from the ashes of the old system but as part of a systemic dismantling of it. He knew what few westerners knew or understood. Take away the party and the structure of it's people in government and the only two groups that would remain intact and organized would be the KGB and the Russian mobs, the criminal underground. That criminal underground was always there, supported by the KGB and needed - to supply the grease to make life bearable for those who had the power or the means to pay.

Those two groups, the mob and the KGB, chafed somewhat under Yeltsin but outmanuevered him in the end. Putin is totally a KGB mobster of the first order and he has extended the hold that the two groups wield on the economics and politics of Russia today. I call it a mobocracy. The KGB is the mob's political enforcers, through Putin and the mob is the KGB's economic dictators, through the criminal oligarchs alligned with Putin. The country is run by and for their duopoly.

Russia seems locked in a czarist mode. It just changes the external appearance and features of it.

[UglyinLA]

Me thinks that Sergei got too much sun standing outside in the bread line.

[Enchante]

Pravda, hmmmm..... I thought I was reading the usual fare from the NY Times, WaPo, etc. Interesting how our MSM and Pravda are so much alike....

[Red6]

If it makes the people reading that paper feel better about their pathetic situation, fine.

Realize that a socialist lives in a literal imaginary alternate reality. He has too! Otherwise he can’t accept that pseudo-religion he believes in.

Red6

[True_wesT]

Projection: When someone is threatened by or afraid of their own impulses so they attribute these impulses to someone else.