Good news, right?
They dropped the interest rate a history making .75%. Bush is trying to push his stimulus package through Congress in as little as 3 weeks to get money out to people as quickly as possible. 3 weeks is light speed for Congress.
All this to help foreign markets, according to Pelosi. We are such good guys here in America that we can't bear to see foreign stock markets plummeting. I feel warm and patriotic all over, don't you?
"The urgency that we feel at home is now even more urgent as we see the impact of our markets on others," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after both Democratic and Republican lawmakers met with Bush at the White House.
We aren't doing it for us because, according to King George, the economy has a strong base. Okay, he did admit that we are doing it for us but he really did say that the economy has a strong base or undercurrent or some such crap.
Is there anyone that doesn't believe this is all very desperate?