[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[George Cook]

In article <J8KdnQH3Q55bqHPTnZ2dnUVZ8o-dnZ2d at bt.com>, Andrew <andrew97d-junk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> On 02/12/2011 06:47, George Cook wrote:
>> In article<4ed861f0$0$20241$c3e8da3$9deca2c3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  writes:
>>> George Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bush created too much prosperity.  Well, actually, the fed created too
>>>> much by keeping interest rates too low.  The result was a runaway
>>>> housing boom which, with the help of Barnie Frank and his comrades,
>>>> caused the mess we are in.  People forget that Bush kept unemployment
>>>> near 5% (i.e., full employment) at least partly with tax cuts until
>>>> the bubble burst.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bush got in and inherited the .com bubble burst amplified by 9-11
>>> (especially the self inflicted harm to the airline industry).
>>
>> Yes, Bush did a good job of avoiding a major recession after 9-11.
>> We pulled out of the minor recession quickly and spent the rest of
>> the decade upto 2008 with good GDP growth and full employment.
>> Unfortunately, Bush did not have control of the Fed or in his final
>> years control of the Congress.
>>
> You're having a laff aren't you ?. Bush was paranoid about Bush seniors 
> removal from the white house in 1992 by Clinton. "It's the economy 
> stupid". He surrounded himself by all the worst crooks that Wall st 
> could come up with, and worst of all was Greenspan. This idiot and his 
> scottish counterpart, one Gordon Brown carried out identical policies 
> which had one aim in mind. Generate the mother of all housing booms and 
> while the sheeple are distracted you can implement all manner of stupid 
> polices, like 2 totally illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
> PS when Saddam Hussein 'invaded' Kuwait, he was actually (in his eyes) 
> taking back what was historically part of what is now Iraq.
> 'Kuwait' was stolen by the British government and BP back in 1923 when 
> oil was discovered !.

Please don't ignore the fact that Clinton also surrounded himself
with Greenspan along with the usual set of crooks for eight years,
but I agree that actions by the fed were a major cause of the housing
boom.


George Cook