What No One Else Said At Bush's Press Conference

Two of the main issues that George Bush stressed in the Press Conference tonight were Social Security and Energy.

Why are people so reluctant to follow Bush's proposals on changing Social Security? Perhaps it's because this administration has a record of blatant lies that lead us into situations that are not in the best interest of the people. Another reason may be that we don't think a man who ran a budget surplus into the biggest deficit in history is the right man to be managing our finances. We have 35 years to get someone in the White House who we can trust to have a hand in determining whether or not our aging population becomes homeless.

In discussing our current energy crisis, Bush mentioned the competition we now have with China and India for energy and their increasing demand for Middle East oil.

What wasn't mentioned and what no journalist pressed him on was the fact that the main reason China and India are competing with us for oil is because we have created their demand by outsourcing American jobs and manufacturing to those countries.

The drilling in the ANWR was discussed. In ten years we will gain one million barrels a day. A budget proposal to require automobile makers to produce cars that meet an average of 33 mpg that would save us TWO million barrels a day in ten years was voted down by the Republicans.

Bush said there was nothing he could do to bring down gas prices in the immediate timeframe, however no one mentioned how much gas our war machinery takes to run. Bringing our troops home would certainly have an effect. Another fix would be to stop diverting the oil to the strategic petroleum reserves and release some as Clinton did.

Again, the mainstream press failed the American people.