This is hysterical – from THE worst president EVER. Comedians world-wide ought to have a blast with this!

Is the Americans reading?

How anyone can possibly believe that the republicans know anything about economic is comical at best. EVERY recession in my lifetime (50 years) happened during republican presidencies. This was not just a coincidence.

This is hysterical.

I think you guys are full of it, and 60-80% in your head ; there is no free lunch on planet earth.
that doesn’t mean you dont do a good or great job on other things,

Bush did most things well relating to the Economy, but the dismantling of the UP TICK Rule in 1998-1999, 9/11 energy and the Cole attack energy already had happened, or the energy was set when Bush Came in.

Remember” What you see in others , you have in yourself.”
Roberto Conrad, WDC and DES MOINES IA.

That’s pretty wild… Bush giving ideas on the economy. Why not ask Ronald McDonald to write a new diet

How laughable…the necrosis bacteria is still eating away each American pocket in this so called Capitalist eco?!!

Don’t worry, Obama is going to co-author it. His part is going to tell how to finally send a nation down the river after Bush. He promised that four years was what he needed to set things right, but that was a politician’s lie. No one did all this on his own, but Obama doubled in his four years what Bush did in eight.

dunno! Seems Bush is as qualified as any other member of the GOP. I mean…what he’d have to say makes as much sense as anything else we’ve heard from Republicans

I am LMAO!!! Who wrote a book? A book? Hell, can he even write his name. I know he can’t deliver a speech. Any 5th grader could deliver a speech better. George, are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Hey Henry Decker you are joke too we are not stupid you liberals use media to tell us jokes and lie after lie please stop this non sense talking to us

Goerge Bush as an expert on Economics is a joke. Look at the shpe this country is in. He knows as much about Economics as Hitler did about Human Rights.

I would rather read a book called “THE JOY OF PARENTAL DUTY” by CASEY ANTHONY.

Who REALLY wrote this book? Karl Rove?

Every president has problems they can’t solve. They have no control over gas prices for one, and they are emboldened to the Fed. The Fed tells them what to do with the economy. They are told what policies they are to follow, and not the other way around. Where Bush really went wrong was when he lied about the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam had, and used that lie to start a war, so he could stay in power. He had a huge opportunity after 9/11 to really do some great things, and instead, he used it as a pretense to start a war that kept him in power for two terms.

This also kept the Military Industrial Complex running and expanding. Who made all the money? Rich stock holders of various companies that make war products. Not us! Obama is trying to clean up the mess Bush left behind, and he did a fairly good job of keeping us from going into a full blown depression. It is going to take a very long time to get out of this recession. Maybe longer than he will be in office.

A very big consideration to take into account is that we are moving from a manufacturing society into one that is a more information society. A lot of people are being hurt because the manufacturing jobs went overseas, and they are going to have to adapt to a new system. This started long before Obama. Corporations have been shipping jobs overseas to cut costs, and they are who we should be mad at. We should be mad at the laws that let this happen.

I could say so much more about what is going on, but presidents don’t have as much control over jobs as we like to think they do. They can’t tell corporations what to do, and therein lies the problem. Only Congress can make the laws. We should direct our anger at Congress, and not necessarily the president. I guarantee you that it doesn’t matter if it is a Dem or Repub president, there will still be problems. Clinton signed NAFTA and got rid of Glass-Steagle. He did more to wreck our economy and its protections that any president from the last 80 years.

Puhlease!

W has never read a book let alone publish one.

Bush is more qualified than Obama to write a book on this subject. Even though both were under the global economic system problem which is collapsing around the world, the difference is that Bush did not waste the economic bailout, the Obama admisnistration did, and after 3 years, two of which the Democrats had full control of both houses, Obama has not been able to do a thing to improve the economy in spite of the federal bailout. While we were being told the 10 largest financial institutions borrowed about $160 billion from the Treasury Department, we were not told that the same firms were also borrowing from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) $ 700 billion in emergency funds. Those borrowers included Morgan Stanley ($107 billion), Citicorp. ($99.5 billion) and Bank of America ($91.4 billion), the bailout of insurance giant American International Group ($85 billion), plus support pledged in the merger of Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase ($29 billion). And to prove the point of a global crisis almost half of the Fed’s top 30 borrowers were European firms, not Americans, which included Royal Bank of Scotland ($84.5 billion) and UBS AG ($77.2 billion). After mishandling all that money, we are far from being out of the woods, Greece is about to pull out of the Euro disaster, with Spain and Italy close to economic meltdown. The Feds and the Corporations behind the Global Economy fiasco are the culprits here so it does not matter if we as a country are fiscally responsible and economically sound, because in that system you are only as good as the weakest link. Let us face the fact that the USA can not maintain the entire economy of the world nor can we save it.
As far as Jimmy Carter is concern the man was inept as a president in spite of his many sterling personal qualities. His administrarion was more concerned in getting him nominated for the Nobel Peace award. During his tenure we turned our back on most of our political allies and the final year of his term arguably was his worst. It was dominated by the Iran Hostage Crisis, during which the U. S. struggled to rescue diplomats and American citizens held hostage in Tehran, paving the way for the rise of Radical Islam now threatening the free world.

This is roughly equivalent to Obama writing a book on Economic Growth…. except Bush had better growth. So funny how people defend Jimmy Carter because he tried – and I guess results don’t matter. Obama tried, but his sucky results aren’t his fault. C’mon, Bush stunk and Obama is worse.

HEY! We should listen to him.. It’ll only cost us 25 bucks. Nim nods like him just loves to play with everyone else’s money, I mean.. Look at all the fun he had during the majority of the last decade.

Two illegal wars put on the national credit card and a tax cut for the wealthy that turned a inherited budget surplus into the biggest deficit in history. Yeah I’m going to listen to this moron tell us how to manage the economy.

Well, I do declare! G.W. is trying to explain things – I think!

This is excellent . He may give insight of the economic hell that he created. All the failed Presidents and Generals who lost wars write outstanding account of their experiences. Despite this I like President Bush, am a fan of his

Was it written with a crayon?

What so hard about understanding the Agenda of the Old Right Philosophy! As it set in place the American Liberty League. And through time took over the Chamber of Commerce for lobbing and special interest. In the agenda that created a depression to devalue labor and the living standards of the common good and honest living. Its all apart of the The Bush Economic Plan.You know the 1% over the 99%. We can never say the “agenda” is a “conspiracy”. No even a depression.When it comes to0 the Mundell-Tobin Affect. Here is a little history in the course and direction of the GOP.
Mundell-Tobin effect and its precursor

With the North victorious in the War Between the States, Republican dominance was assured over the Southern Democrats. Although a combination of former Whigs, Moderate Republicans, Northern and Southern Democrats looked to lower tariffs, the Old Right Republicans managed to eject the Southern delegations, arrest their opponents, overthrow Southern states, establish military despotism and overawe their opponents for the next ten years. The Lincoln era high tariffs remained in place for the next decade. The economic policy of Protectionism continued to dominate American politics until around the early 20th century. For the remainder of the century the issue was not as much about the “Level of Protectionism” as it was about the growth of Corporations and the Centralism of Capitalism and the subsequent issues regarding Labor Rights. Although the beneficiaries of Robber Barons, the GOP at first succeeded in forestalling the issues of corporate capital centralization and increasing “degradation of labor” by pointing to the success of Protectionism as the source for protecting American jobs.
President William McKinley stated the United States’ stance under the Republican Party is thus: “Under free trade the trader is the “master” and the “creator” the slave. To control the basic need is to control creator! Protection is but the law of preservation. Too “survive” is but the law of nature, securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man. [That is! A breed of man! A credence of Philosophy! It’s the survival of the species that counts.]
[It is said] that “protection” is immoral…. Why, if protection builds up and elevates 63,000,000 of people [the U.S. population], the influence of those 63,000,000 people supports the rest of the world. We cannot take a step in the proclivity of progress without benefiting the parasitism the weak and poor everywhere. Well, they say, ‘Buy where you can buy the cheapest’…. Of course cheap, applies to labor as to everything else. Let me give you a maxim. That is a thousand times better than that. And it is the protection maxim: ‘Buy where you can pay the easiest.’ And that place of earth is where “the master” wins its highest rewards.”
[That is to say, as “creator of the labor force” became a slave to devaluation. As the master of the vineyard, comes to legal ownership and exploits creator on principal. In the “degradation of the common good and honest living. Through centralization of governing. That is special interest and lobbing]
President Ulysses S. Grant further echoes that in his quote here: For centuries England has relied on protection. And has carried protectionism to extremes obtained satisfactory results from it.
There is no doubt. That it is to this system. It owes its posterity too. After two centuries, England has found it convenient to adopt free trade because it thinks that protectionism can no longer offer it “Master”. Very well then, Gentlemen, my knowledge of our country leads me to believe that within 200 years. When America has gotten out of protectionism all it had offer. It too, will espouse to free trade.
[That is! Through the deformation and centralizing of govern. Too commercialize and privatize Our Constitution. That is. As Liberalism seeks to protect ”Creator”. The laboring and family of “We the People and All Men are Created Equal! As Conservatism seeks to demonizes Protectionism/Protection as a very “Immoral” thing. That is. The Love and Nurturing of Life and Well-being is a “Great Sin”laid against the natural Law of Survival. In order too privatize, exploit and disavow “our basic needs” on principal. As the “American Liberty League” became the precursor! In the egocentric, that it is “Immoral” to triumph over the Natural Law of Survival, for the very well-being of all Mankind. As the Deformation of Govern brought into policy the Mundell-Tobin effect came into being. Don’t ever consider a depression an “accident” or even a “conspiracy”. As it came into play through the Agenda! Through the deformation and deregulating of policy as a perforce through the Greater Liberty. That is. Through the deformation and demonizing of Conservatism versus Liberalism.] The Bigoted Ideology of Master laid against the well-being of creator.
The Mundell-Tobin effect states.
In manipulating or exploiting the normal interest rate! The interest rate would rise slower in the Creating of Inflation! In understanding the buying power of those affected. Would loose their prosperity. [That is the common good and honest living]. And attempt, to protect their basic needs. As it creates the undesirable affect of a lower interest rate. Driving it down. That is to say. Any form of circumstance a monetary system. Will always devalue the normal interest rate and the prosperity of the common good and honest living! As it accelerates and devalues a monetary system! It came to composition through the Conservative Agenda of “Protectionism”. Too protect industry. The through tariffs.After the depression in 1937 this brought into being the Conservative Manifesto. While the GOP managed to “convince small businesses and labor” of its “altruistic support” for their interests and well-being. Yet the increasing dominance of centralization and large corporations pushed out of the market. Small manufacturers, artisans, craftsmen, and tradesmen As they ultimately came to called into question the GOP’s true allegiance.