Heckuva Job, Bushie

The fucking-off into oblivion of our current lame duck of a president cannot happen quickly enough. At this point, he's essentially just some asshole who dropped a rancid fart in our vicinity and is hanging around to revel in how much it disgusts the rest of us.

With the economy deteriorating rapidly, the nation's employers shed 533,000 jobs in November, the 11th consecutive monthly decline, the government reported Friday morning, and the unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent.

The decline, the largest one-month loss since December 1974, was fresh evidence that the economic contraction accelerated in November, promising to make the current recession, already 12 months old, the longest since the Great Depression.

…"We have recorded the largest decline in consumer confidence in our history," said Richard T. Curtin, director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, which started its polling in the 1950s.

…[E]conomists are estimating that the gross domestic product is contracting at an annual rate of 4 percent or more in the fourth quarter, after a decline of 0.3 percent in the third quarter.

Check out the list of the most-emailed stories in the New York Times' Business Section:


Yowza.

"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work."—George W. Bush, 60 minutes II, CBS, December 5, 2000.

Of course the dumbass meant to say "we want anybody who wants to work to be able to find work." Nevertheless, he and Dick Cheney might not have wanted the nation to be plagued by a recession and high unemployment, but I guess they wanted two wars and some tax cuts more. Lucky us.