1.0 link 114095 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mona-gable/bush-cheerleads-while-the_b_114095.html I was extremely confused by Bush's rosy economic speech. Here my local bank, IndyMac, is collapsing, with distraught customers waiting in line for hours last week to get their money. Gas at my neighborhood pump has surged to nearly $5 a gallon, the price of oil plunging aside. California's unemployment rate just jumped to a new dispiriting high of nearly 7 percent. Then friends are losing their jobs because a real estate mogul is having his own billion-dollar cash meltdown...

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