Bush Administration Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators
The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsened. Conservatives have attempted to deflect attention from the crisis, by blaming the media’s negative coverage and insisting the United States is not headed toward a recession, despite what economists are predicting.More here.
The Bush administration’s latest move is to simply hide the data. Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards. As Forbes explains, the government site provides an invaluable service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data.
Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of “budgetary constraints,” effective March 1.
posted by Fergie @ 2/14/2008 01:28:00 PM
1 Comments:
"Let's all go bury our heads in the sand! What could possibly go wrong?"
Bush needs to be arrested for his crimes and removed from office in handcuffs yesterday. I'm not sure our great nation as we know it can survive another 11 months of King George.
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