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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 03:27 PM Jul 2012

Dubya lends his name to another book .... OMG

WASHINGTON — His entire involvement in the presidential campaign has consisted of four words uttered to a reporter as elevator doors were closing: “I’m for Mitt Romney.” But former President George W. Bush gingerly enters the fray a little more this week with a new book outlining ways to rebuild the economy.

For the first time since leaving office three and a half years ago, Mr. Bush is advancing a variety of ideas about how to jump-start economic growth by restructuring taxes, expanding trade, encouraging innovation, fixing immigration and overhauling Social Security. He wrote the foreword for the book, a collection of essays from an array of economists, including five Nobel Prize winners, and he proposes a national goal of expanding the economy by 4 percent a year on a sustained basis.

“The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs,” to be unveiled by the former president in Dallas on Tuesday and published by Crown Business, is neither campaign template nor partisan screed. It is a wonky paean to free enterprise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/bush-presenting-book-of-economic-proposals.html?smid=tw-nytimespolitics&seid=auto

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Dubya lends his name to another book .... OMG (Original Post) MindMover Jul 2012 OP
Who the hell in their right mind would take economic advice from George W Bush? NYC Liberal Jul 2012 #1
Or any kind of advice whatsoever?? Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #2
Maybe if you needed a hookup for cocaine. NYC Liberal Jul 2012 #4
......... Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #5
He thinks it's all a big joke Rosanna Lopez Jul 2012 #3
* offering advice on how to fix the mess he created?? madinmaryland Jul 2012 #6
A sequel to the Hungry Caterpillar? Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2012 #7

NYC Liberal

(20,136 posts)
4. Maybe if you needed a hookup for cocaine.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 04:10 PM
Jul 2012

Or you wanted to run your business into the ground.

Then you might get advice from him.

Rosanna Lopez

(308 posts)
3. He thinks it's all a big joke
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 04:05 PM
Jul 2012

He just laughs it up all the time, just like he did when he was the White House last month.

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