better off 4 years ago.... powerful thing just on msnbc

[dembotoz]

showed a speech by bush from sept 23rd??? 2008--you know the eyes wide open deer in the headlights speech about how shitty the ecconomy was and we were in crisis......

i think we need a daily 4 years ago post about
today 4 years ago this bank failed
or the stock market lost xx points

blow em all over social media.

times were really shitty back then--have we all forgotten??????????????????

[cilla4progress]

1. Great idea!

I'm shocked at the cultural amnesia, also!

[dembotoz]

2. yestday sept 3 2008

GMAC's Residential Capital mortgage provider announces plans to dramatically reduce the size of its business resulting in the loss of 5,000 jobs. (Minneapolis-St Paul Star-Tribune)

[dembotoz]

3. sept 5 2008

According to several news reports, the US government plans to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a takeover plan. (MSNBC)

[malaise]

4. The funniest thing about that speech is that he made it

from the same room where Obama announced that Bin Laden was dead.

[dembotoz]

5. if that speech doesn't make it all over facebook in the next couple of weeks.......

hit the gd republicans in the gut with their own history

just because they can not remember g bush doesn't mean we have to forget

[pamela]

6. I was thinking the same thing about the daily 4 years ago headlines.

I've been doing a job on Amazon Turk that involves reviewing old articles. Most of the batch I've been doing comes from 2008 and 2009. It is really bringing it back to me how bad things were in 2008 and how quickly in 2009 the Repubs started attacking President Obama.

I even thought about asking the Admins if we could pin a running thread for the next two months titled "four years ago today" and keep it at the top of the greatest page. We could add new headlines every day. I think the cumulative effect of all the headlines would be profound and it might even get picked up by some media types.

[Oilwellian]

7. Video