Since the some of the Moguls who run Hollywood like to remake movies, and there's some pretty serious unemployment news out there, will there be sequel to the Grapes of Wrath?
With more than two million jobs having disappeared since Mr. Bush took office in January 2001, he finds himself in danger of becoming the first president since Hoover to oversee a decline in the country's employment. Economists disagree on how much blame, if any, Mr. Bush deserves for the long slump, but even White House aides view the economy as one of the only big threats to his re-election campaign.
So, what do you think? Unemployment to 6.4% and that doesn't even count some of our fellow bloggers and their spouses...now all we need is humungous drought to make it all come alive for real...
posted by Jo Fish on 07.03.03 at 10:53 PM
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Hoover was President when I was born (1930). Is history to be repeated with W? Can I survive another great depression? Or is there a coming of a new FDR in 2004? Hoover made a great vacuum cleaner. Bush beans aren't bad. But as Presidents ...?
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 07.04.03 at 07:51 AM [permalink]
Going with the Herbert Hoover motif, his Secretary of the Treasury was a financier and industrialist from Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon.
George W. Bush's first Secretary of the Treasury was a financier and industrialist from Pittsburgh, Paul O'Neil.
Both Presidents had economic policies that led the economy down the toilet. Both had similar choices for Secretary of the Treasury.
