That's one way, at least, to explain a recent decision by the EPA to lower the value attached to the life of the average American by 20 percent in the past five years. The Agency announced that an average American's life is worth $6.9 million today, vs. $8.5 million five years ago (in 2008 dollars).
The reason for this acknowledgment, of course, was not to confess how bad a manager Bush has been but to lower the value the administration...
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