President Bush spoke to a group of school children about economics. "It's easy when you don't knows anything about it," he said.
While bombs continue to rain down upon Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, President Bush returned to the task of trying to single-handedly destroy the U.S. economy.
Speaking before a group of workers at a packaging processing plant on Wednesday, Bush unveiled some ideas of his to supposedly jump start the sluggish U.S. economic outlook.
Among some of Bush's suggestions are further tax breaks to give Americans the incentive to go out and spend some cash on big ticket items such as appliances and automobiles.
Bush also came up with the brilliant idea of giving further tax refunds to those who actually deserve it: the poor.
"Don't gets me wrong," he said, "I'm not through giving away money to the rich folk like my daddy and me. I just figures we should give some back to the peoples who shop at Walmarts too."
Democrats agree that the money should have gone to low income earners in the first place, since recent studies have shown a single person earning minimum wage cannot afford to live in an apartment in the United States.
Despite promises of further tax refunds and cuts, both Republicans and Democrats feel that the president's timing is a bit off.
"Without question the terrible events of September 11th have affected our economy," said Majority Leader Tom Daschle. "But we need to curtail the amount of money we are spending in it's wake."
Many critics of the president's policy point out that his economic figures didn't add up before the terrorist attack, and certainly are out of whack now.
Billions of dollars unforseen when the budget was drawn up have been pumped into areas such as New York, the airline industry and other related areas, not to mention proposed increases for military and intelligence spending.
Many fear a return to Reagan-era spending, which drove the national debt into trillions of dollars. Only years of belt-tightening by the Clinton administration managed to steer the nation out of the red. Now it appears that all that work will be for nothing.
President Bush scoffs at any criticisms of his monetary policy, saying that the nation will never again go into debt.
"I learned the other day, that we actually have the ability to print money. It's true, the Treasury Department does it. So when we needs another trillion dollars, we'll just get those machines up and running and we'll be - uh - not broke or whatever. I can't believes no one ever thought of this before!"
