George W. Bush addresses record unemployment: “The marketplace works. It is fair. It is equitable."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Former President George W. Bush is now on the lecture circuit as a motivational speaker -- and he has a message for America's unemployed: The marketplace is "fair."

Speaking in Forth Worth, Texas in his debut as a motivational speaker, Bush's speech echoed some of his themes as president. But his comments on the economy are sure to rankle the millions of Americans who've been laid off.

“The marketplace works," Bush remarked. "It is fair. It is equitable. It is a fair form of democracy.”

Bush addressed a crowd of 11,000 who paid for a verbal injection of enthusiasm from the former president.

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/unemployment-soars-bush-market-fair-equitable-democratic/

[Brickbat]

1. Only GWB could give a "motivational speech" about the economy and say the marketplace is fair.

I heard that noise for eight years. I see he's still full of it.

[Captain Hilts]

2. He never had to enter any kind of 'market' to find a job, a college, a way to dodge the draft....nt

[treestar]

16. Bingo! It would seem "fair" to him - he could always have whatever job

he wanted.

Whether he was qualified or not!

[ixion]

3. Smirky McAssClown has never spent a working day in his life

so how the hell would he know?

[peace frog]

15. ARGH

Is this the kind of utter bullshit we can expect to hear from Little Lord Pissypants for the rest of his natural life?
ARGH, I say, AARRGGHH! :grr:

[AllentownJake]

4. Yes it is fair

Someone who has worked for a company for 20 years can be dumped with a small severance and have their job shipped overseas as a cost cutting measure while a CEO who was brought in from some other company they ravaged is giving a compensation package in the millions.

It certainly is fair Mr. President.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. That famous line from "Office Space"...

...when Peter is explaining why Michael & Samir (and the others laid off at Initech) had to go: "So Lumbergh's stock can go up one half of one percentage point."

As long as the haves and have mores are seeing THEIR stock go up a half of a percentage point, Bush is satisfied with the fairness of the marketplace.

[supernova]

5. He really does live in la la land

It's always sunny in philadelphia.

This is the best of all possible worlds.

[bulloney]

33. This was the guy who told a woman it is "fantastic" that she has to work 3 jobs.

In Bushworld, the market is working. His "base" has continued to get richer while the lower 95% has seen wages drop in real dollars.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Interesting to be motivated by a guy who pretty much wrecked any

company or entity he came near.

He motivates like this:
http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

[WinkyDink]

7. He equates the marketplace to DEMOCRACY?! What a vile little thug-wannabe.

[Zodiak]

27. Thank you

I was hoping someone would notice that. Our economic system has nothing at all to do with democracy. This is part of the sick thinking of Republicans...they actually think that capitalism is codified into the Constitution.

[guitar man]

9. Bullshit

If the marketplace were fair and equitable, he might at best have made assistant manager at Pizza Hut based on his own merits. The "fair and equitable marketplace" that allowed his family to buy him the presidency is neither. :grr:

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Quite simply, the Bushies are all full of shit!

GW's view of the world is so polluted with priveledge and status, he wouldn't know free market if it bit him in the ass. He has NEVER felt the negative sting of failure because he has never been allowed to suffer from his failures. Throughout his life he has played by a different set of rules. It has always been someone else that paid for his failures and had to clean up after him.

The only reason that GW thinks the marketplace in America is fair is becuase somebody told him it was.

[area51]

11. GW Hoover strikes again.

:eyes:

[Octafish]

12. No kidding. Arbusto, Spectrum 7, and HARKEN worked the marketplace, all right.

And Poppy's rich buds were more than willing to help a connected, up-and-coming fraud artiste.

Know your BFEE: How Smirko Got Rich

Gawsh, how I wish Americans read more.

[Sinti]

20. LOL - don't we all wish they would read more

Even if they did read, reading comprehension for many is extremely poor. So, they might read, but not understand. They never take a high-level look at what happened, and what comes next if you follow the sequence logically.

Thanks for all your efforts - I greatly appreciate them, and have learned quite a bit more than I knew - and I thought I was pretty aware. We need to put it together and make movies - shorts. People would understand better with pictures and voice-over. They have the opposite of my problem (hyperlexia) and think with their eyes and mouths open. I think it's something in the diet, or maybe the water. :)

[dysfunctional press]

28. don't forget about his stint with the taxas rangers...

and how people lost their land and paid taxes for a new ballpark, and dumbya's $600,000 investment(which he borrowed) turned into $15million.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Yale called. They want his MBA back.

[FormerDittoHead]

14. Everyone here on DU should understand that is what they believe - it's their CORNERSTONE.

That's why they want gov't to be 'fair' to rich people, because it's only 'right' that (by way of implication) that if you're rich, it's because you deserve to be rich as much as poor people deserve to be poor, and everything else is window dressing.

(btw: check out Calvinism if you want the history of this thinking)

There is no way they will concede that rich people are LUCKY. They will never concede that rich people, who work hard, yes (as IF the poor don't work hard) are rewarded somewhat DISPROPORTIONATELY by our "fair" economy.

Europe isn't like us. They get that the ROLE OF A GOVERNMENT IS TO MITIGATE LUCK, BOTH GOOD AND BAD, BUT HERE, IT'S PART OF THE RICH-FUNDED *LIE* that the poor are that way because they DESERVE TO BE POOR.

THIS IS THE CORNERSTONE OF THEIR IDEOLOGY. GET THAT.

[Last Stand]

26. You totally get it. I've been saying it for years.

They don't work harder than guys who lay black top. They're not smarter than most second grade teachers.
They're just lucky that they were born in America, that they're white, that they don't speak with a lisp, that they have use of all of their limbs and that they were able to use whatever lucky confluence of factors to put themselves into a position that they feel that they are somehow more worthy.

And the opportunity that was THE necessary element to their success is exactly what they suck out of the system the benefitted so richly from.

[marmar]

17. Back on the sauce?

:beer:

[HughBeaumont]

18. A member of the "Lucky Sperm" club is a motivational speaker. That makes sense.

Yes, fairness.

“The marketplace works,"




"It is fair."





"It is equitable."





"It is a fair form of democracy."




"Smirk".

[kentuck]

19. Then why did you have to ask for $700 billion to save them ??

We saved the market. The market did not save us.

[damntexdem]

21. Keep talking, Dubya. You highlight to the American people just what;s wrong with GOP ideas

about the marketplace and everything else.

[Sinti]

22. Is this a live photo, or photoshop job? Did he use a huge hologram of himself? Do we know? n/t

[gratuitous]

23. As one of the lucky few winners

Of course he feels the system is fair and equitable. He doesn't concern himself with the thousands, millions even, who are reduced to penury to support his lavish lifestyle. They don't matter in the grand scheme of things, which exists solely to make sure that he always has more than he needs, but never as much as he wants.

[corpseratemedia]

24. as he speaks, so the GOP sinks

these losers can't SEE that people born into less even exist

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. "It's easy", said the Chimp. "All you gotta do is become a CEO and get a $1 billion bonus"

"What could be a fairer marketplace than that?"

[LeftHander]

29. "It's good....we all can always live in a VAN down by the RIVER!"

[peekaloo]

30. Oooh an Asshologram of Boo$h!

White Collar Criminal Komedy Tour.

[truth2power]

31. "The marketplace works....It is a fair form of democracy."...

Capitalism (marketplace) is an economic system. Democracy is a political system.

Doofus!! :silly:

[bullwinkle428]

32. In an "equitable marketplace", this assclown would be drinking out of a paper bag

in an alley!