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Originally Posted by SpiritWarrior
When you get a Nobel Peace prize because the planet is happy you are not George Bush, it speaks volumes.
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Wonderful quotable quote. Too bad he did not much else to get it.
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As for proving his worth in 2 years - he owned Osama and saved us from a great depression.
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He owned Ossama, but he saved us from nothing. To the extent he was involved, stimulus spending was like 33% of what it should have been (so much went to bailouts of companies that should have been allowed to fail under laissez faire economics), and over 50% of that was wasted. Google it up and see the number of critical infrastructure fixes this country needs -- there were plenty of FDR style shovel-ready jobs that actually needed doing, and only a fraction got money, got ideas, and got done. Those projects were the easiest way to get people employed -- the lowest hanging fruit. And, to boot they were a security issue. Why did they not get done? From levees to bridges to more mundane roads, our 2-generations-old infrastructure needs a huge overhaul, and it seems to me to be the most efficient and obvious way to boost jobs.