Jeb Bush for President?
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Great Governor--YES!!!
If he was all you seem to denigrate him for, why did he win re-election by a wider
margin in his 2nd term? I am sorry my fellow but it was the greedy real estate speculators and "flippers" who ruined the Florida real estate market in addition to the
national mortgage problems with no-doc loans, no downpayment mortgages, etc...
Jeb helped Florida tremendously in his eight years! He was a main player in diversifying Florida's economic structure with his lobbying of getting those major California medical research institutes to plant their roots in Central Florida. He was
a major reason that Florida's public schools are doing so much better now with his
accountability programs and paying teacher's more, his opposition to college
miniority preferential enrollment programs has actually made it better for miniorities
to excel in college. Jeb Bush left a surplus to his successor when he left office.
Guess what! Jeb Bush will win in 2012 for President US after the 52% of this country
who voted for Barack Obama wake up and see that he is going to take us in the direction of another progressive European country! We are the US and we won our
independence from the Europe mainland in 1776 by revolting against taxes, tariff's, etc... and the King of England.
We are a nation of independent, entrepeneur, god-fearing, can-do, Americans
who want a limited government and the chance at success and prosperity for ourselves and our families. No one can/will take that away from us!
Come on!
To compare Jeb to W is absurd. Like he's responsible for all the idiots who kept cashing out equity and/or buying homes for $550k or more when they only made $50,000/year. The problems in florida are because everyone speculated and bought investment homes with payments that didn't even cover the interest. He strove to provide affordable housing for the middle class who couldn't afford to live where they worked.
It is the idiocy of the people who kept saying the housing market here couldn't crash because we have no more land. HA! Everytime I hear that a market (stocks, real estate, etc) won't crash this time or some variation, I know it is about to fall. Remember the dot com bubble. Every market recession is ALWAYS followed by a housing crash before things have true growth again.
Check the history, The same happened in the late 80's, housing fell in the early 90's before we had growth again. People should be held accountable for poor decisions as much as the lenders that morgage a $1,000,000 home for a middle class family earning less than $50,000. Jeb was one of the most loved Florida governor in recent times. His so called corporate deals and payoffs, brought much needed corporate building to Florida. More jobs were brought here because of his courting to large companies. I recall he fought to bring more higher paying tech firms here, while every state was fighting for these. In my area alone, IBM, Scripps and Agilysys moved their headquartes to South Florida. All of these are multibillion dollar corporations.
Do you think Charlie Crist would have won decisively if Jeb was disliked? Why don't we lay the blame where it belongs, with poor personal decisions and even poorer decisions by greedy mortgage brokers who doctored applications and convinced people to live beyond their means.
I am crushed by the betrayel of W and Jeb will forever be scarred by his relationship. He juggled the need to work for the people with the need to work the donors quite well.
Of course, that is my opinion and as always, I respect yours and the country that let's us disagree without getting shot for disagreeing with the gov't. Only have to worry about each other.
I miss the Reagan/Goldwater Republican Party more than ever. The religious right has destroyed my once beloved party.
Jeb
ARE YOU SERIOUS? Florida is one of the WORSE STATES in foreclosures and economy in general Jeb himself dumped how much bad debt mortagages on FL before leaving office?!
By the way guess who was on the Board of LEHMAN BROS - that's right JEB! You cannot be serious to even consider another Bush in ANY office....EVER!
Jan-what a b#tch
Somehow Bush won re-election in a landslide. Typically demtard that don't know their ass froma hole in the ground.
Another Bush?
How about another FDR?
His grandchildren are often consulted by the pundits.
The Bush's claimed to be "war presidents".
There is no greater war president in this country's recent history than FDR.
Personally, I'd rather trust our civilian government (or so the Constitution intended) to a "peace president".
Anybody know of one?
Great governor?
Well, Repub mouthpiece John Boner, your knowledge of what kind of a governor Jebbie was is, well, NILL! The unfortunate residents of Florida who had to endure 8 long years of his law-breaking secrecy, total lack of leadership ability, his daily raiding of our treasury to reward fatcat corporate donators to the RNC resulting in a bankrupt Florida when he left office, his unethical sweetheart deals he arranged for $900,000 annual board salaries and counting (Tenet Healthcare and Lehman Bros.)in exchange for a deal for downrated junk from Lehman which lost Florida cities and counties million$. Oh, and don't forget his underhanded deal with CSX to gift them with millions, if not billions, of FL taxpayer funds! Even the Repubs in legislature heaved a sigh of relief at his departure. He singlehandedly KILLED the FL real estate market, thanks, Jeb! And NO--neither Jeb nor any other Bush will get within a mile of EVER being elected to office again! Lesson bitterly learned and thanks, corrupt RPOF!
