If you want assurance of failure, let the government do it.

I recall Bush's response to a stock market crash was jacking up the national debt because culpable institutions like Fannie Mae were "too big to fail."
Forgotten is the lesson of how the government handled the stock market crash of 1920. That time some things failed and some things didn't because the free market was allowed to correct itself in its own way. Next thing that happened was the boom called The Roaring Twenties.
What goes up must come down and along came the crash of 1929 that was handled just the opposite way by an all-knowing all-seeing progressive Big Brother.
Bush set his own self up as the perfect fall-guy for Obama's "lookit him not me" art of deflection.

Me dino thinks it's criminal human nature to smoke and mirrors divert attention from themselves by playing a blame game at the expense of others.
I can think of four different corrupt corrections officers who were into that shortly before they got caught.
Such misuse was made of a reinstated officer who was transferred to our prison after he won a lawsuit against against a warden who fired him from another.
He was called a crook by an officer who was caught smuggling in marijuana the very next day.
Another officer caught drug smuggling the very next day told me dino he was smarter than me.
Noting that the dude seemed to be acting a tad intoxicated, I was all like "Well, you made the highest grade point average when we went to advanced training last week."
That was the last time I ever saw that genius, though I did hear that deputies took him from the prison to the county jail.
Once officer who ran ICS (Inmate Control Systems) picked on me dino when I was getting a divorce. He even told a deputy warden to look out for me because I "may go off in One Block" where I was being assigned a lot at the time.
Turned out that the ICS officer was making parents pay him cash if they wanted Inmate Sonny Boy assigned to preferred prison job or moved into cell blocks with relatives, friends, lovers and whatnot.
One morning I was assigned to a tower and headed for the front gate when I saw the cur in handcuffs escorted by the warden and a couple of DOC detectives. Feeling kinda raw over what the cur had been saying about me, I actually had to force myself not smile as I pretended cur was not there and merely said, "Morning, sir," to the warden, who looked just a tad amused. He wasn't that deputy warden but those uppity-ups do talk to each other.
Last I heard about the cur was that he was doing life without parole at a prison beside Montgomery. Guess he committed other crimes when released on bond.
A gray-headed officer who liked to laugh and cut up while joking about the failings of other officers was caught having homosexual sex with an inmate in a cell. That inmate had. That officer had actually given that inmate photographs of himself.
BTW, we lost two females for having heterosexual sex. One was doing with an inmate and the other with a male officer, who also was fired. The last two got caught because they were too busy up in a dorm cubicle to notice inmates fighting.

This is true of evil in all its forms.

911 was on Bush's watch. It could not have happened without complicity and utter stupidity. Bush's response was to destroy our liberty and wreck America's economic future. He ranks with the worst presidents in history, and that's not fake news. (Yes, Obama was worse, but Bush's actions/inactions opened the door for him.)

They always accuse what they themselves abuse.
The elephant should be a hippo for the hipocracy

If you seen this it's worth seeing again if not enjoy.
https://youtu.be/iCPhs7UAr5s

Thanks for posting that King Barry slime.
That hot mic catching that Obamanable treasonous kissing up to Putin should be played over and over much more.
Entitling future displays as "Real Russian Collusion" would work for me.

Scandals usually result in trouble for the participants.Cover ups, lies cheat use the govt illegally no problamo. True that President a Trump took out the media or bypasses them but The media hates him because he represents success and also the majority of the producers in this country.
In case you have not noticed the media is a joke they are a propaganda machine for the statists and are useful idiots (to be kind).

Judicial watch is a good organization IMHO.
28 years of Bushes Clinton's Obama's painstakingly destroying the American way of life.
I don't know if I ever heard anything come out of any of those oh so presidential mouths that wasn't a lie. Except this but we were not supposed to hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8...
Trump is more presidential in one little tweet
than all of them combined.

Evidence of the perils this country faces due to ignorance fostered by our public education.
Many in this country have been taught and it is reinforced thru the media to react emotionally rather than considerate reasoning.
An example is the uproar from people
Because Trump suggested Teachers arm themselves. You never hear any uproar about armed guards in banks and armored trucks.
Is that because money is more valuable than children? I have never heard of a an incident caused by those guards harming the general public. Can't say I actually really ever thought about it.

Exactly, common sense business people don't buy into inflationary economics. Wall Street loves free trade because it turns companies into distribution warehouses with lighter overhead, but it's not good for the economy as a whole.

Yet, we elect them. Saved by the bell this time.

Peel away the fancy economist names and phrases and its as simple as money in less than money out at an ever increasing rate. Sort of like the big bang theory. The universe, created out of nothing, yet keeps expanding. As to our education system, the tthree most important subjects are not taught.
History, Economics, and how to handle money.

Hope you are right.

I re-read my post and then, put it side by side to your post.I guess I'm missing something.I think you're answering someone else's post.Either that or I'm still asleep and dreaming.

Why are you considering what other countries do in trade with their governments causing all kinds of market misbehaviors.
Recall that under Reagan, the debt increased by almost 1.7 trillion dollars.
Back in the early 1960s, I started to watch how the slow exponential growth of government budgets and debts were going and knew that they would be running away in the future. That future has arrived. There is no painless cure. The debt growth sometimes declines a bit but the exponential growth rate will continue.
You seem to make balance of payments an important thing. You buy something and give something in return. You buy something from Japan, say, and give a, somewhat quasi-value as dollars, in return and somehow believe that those dollars are still yours! They belong to whomever you bought from to do as they desire with them. Do you get all worked up for the balance of payments of purchases with another state? Is the other state required to buy from your state with the dollars you payed? It is no different between countries. In fact, it might be good to send worthless paper out of the US economy since the government keeps inflating the money supply which would cause price rises if it were suddenly returned. In the market, that money can be returned if you produced something desired that the other countries peoples would want. USA does that in certain areas but as more wealth is created, many countries produce most everything that the citizens want. New technology is the main way to get the money back. Just keep producing new killing machines that the money holders want and the money will trickle back to the USA.

We are saying the same thing, create a climate for lower skilled job demand to come back, then start shutting off the safety net. People will go back to work and either be happy or go back to school to improve themselves.

the core problem is our failed k-12 education system, it's caused mostly by the failed family structure, but big ticket costs to our economy stem from not educating big swaths of people.

If you look at the debt, it has gone out of control since Bush 41 in lockstep with free trade. Sure crap from China got cheaper, but then we incurred massive welfare, Medicaid, housing allowance, and food stamp costs. Around 25% are on some form of welfare, and that doesn't include social security or the questionable permanent disability claims.

Both of them only concerned themselves mostly with holes .One on a golf course the other well you know....

Yes, but hope is what President Trump has given me and any rational citizen. Compared to the horse $#|+ candidates and
Lying phony elected anti-American frauds that have systematically ruined the potential of this country for decades. The "uncivil war" is being waged and casualties have been piling up.

There is no "the economy", it is just a abstraction and thus does not exist to be repaired. There are only individual actions which may be in the realm of economics. Get government out of the way and then individuals can learn to repair their own actions such as in education, drug usage, and all the thousands of areas into which a government interferes. You want more government to provide more for the individual which, as more is provided, you get those problems of the inner cities and most every where else.

Big businesses can absorb the regulations and pass it on to the consumers after the small fish are eliminated and competition is stifled. I am deeply concerned that Amazon will be the only source of many goods in the future . If we have a a Carrington type of event destroying our electric grid ,how will we order product?

Thanks for the input. Many contingencies that I had not considered. You know, the presidency is a herder job than first revealed. How did we mange to survive Barak and Billy?

No, you wont be able to hang in there that long. China produced more steel in 1 Month (any month) last year than the whole of the US economy did the entire year. Unlike the undercutting competitors you speak of, their industries have the depth of resources of the world’s largest economy and government behind them. You can’t wait it out.

We are about to embark on a trillion dollars or so of much-needed and very overdue infrastructure repair. My wife is a civil engineer for storm water systems on freeways and an expert on water-scour degradation on bridge embutments. You have no idea how bad it is, the freeway collapsing in Minneapolis into the river could happen in any American city, in fact, that one wasn’t even the worst-rated one.

If we don’t do this, we would borrow and spend a trillion dollars that would basically go straight to China for materials, and only create more temporary “installer” jobs here. Building the stuff here gets 5 times the economic effect, and for materials, it at most would add 5-10% to the project cost.

We are not going to nationalize our industries and convert to socialism (at least now that Obama is gone), but we do need to protect our struggling businesses and workers.

We just gave them a great tax cut and the ability to repatriate their money - now protect their business wile they recover.

We cannot keep supporting people with the socialist safety net, that never fixes the problem and only fetches more gangs, drugs, and violence.