Gas prices is not a sign of a recession. Recession is when your economic growth is down for two consequitive quarters. We have a rising inflation rate and at the same time weakining dollar. What does the Fed do? They lower the interest rate. This leads to more inflation and more weak dollar...
Who is Bush anyway? He is just a dumb puppet. He is not making any decisions. The decisions on Monetary policy are made by the people that own the Fed, which is as you know is a privately owned bank like other central banks.
So Bush says what they tell him to say.
Watch it. The international media is talking about it all day long for the past week.
http://zanyvideos.com/video/ZanyVideos_Elderly_Woman_Mugged_And_Beaten.wmv
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=141
"Each of the contracting parties [Mexico and the United States] reserves to itself the entire right to fortify whatever point within its territory it may judge proper so to fortify for...