Keeping Score for Our Children and a Rose by Any Other Name is Still Called “Recession”

Keeping score for our children

The Children Defense Fund each year puts out a score card for how well our U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives are doing when it comes to our children and the issues that effect their health and welfare.

Children Defense Fund Score Card for New Mexico

US Senate:

Senator Jeff Bingaman.......90%....B+
Senator Pete Domenici......10%.....F-

US House of Representatives:

Congressman Steve Pearce................20%.....F-
Congressmen Tom Udall.................100%....A+
Congresswoman Heather Wilson......60%.....F+

Now take a look at your children or grandchildren and ask yourself who you would want to replace Senator Pete Domenici. Two of our U.S. Representatives need to go to remedial summer school for training on how best to defend our children. We will be kind and let Senator Domenici have the summer off due to illness.

Presidential Candidates:

Senator Obama..........100%...........A+
Senator Clinton..........100%...........A+
Senator McCain...........10%............F-

I guess we now know who cares the most about our children in our State and Federal Government now don’t we. Looks like Senator McCain needs to join our U.S. Representatives in remedial summer school. The Children Defense Fund Website: http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2006 Checkout the report for your self.

President George W. Bush says “Economy in slowdown not recession.”

With statements like that I have to wonder just how much was he drinking during his college years. Come off it will you already, housing starts are dropping, gas prices are already above $3 a gallon and rising, unemployment is going up, and consumer confidents is in the toilet. President Bush can call it anything he likes but a rose by any other name is still a recession. When the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sees the need to lower the prime rate again even if inflation could go up then you call it a recession. When President Bush himself sees fit to give rebate checks to middle class Americans you call it a recession. Check out the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Website: http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/global_economy/usecon_charts.html if you want to see just how bad the indicators are at present.