Bush Game- true or false?

[~Corsair#01~]

I remember posting this last year and having it taken down because Voltron humped the Statue of Liberty...

Yes, I think the profanity in the game was a bit excessive- still, I posted this here due to my interest in the figures inside the game rather than the game itself.

 

[LLXerxes]

Summary on the game:
It sucked.
The stuff ws impossible,the beggining was waaaaay to long, and fat ass he-man sucked.
The music was OK, but that was the only good thing

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Summary on the game:
It sucked.
The stuff ws impossible,the beggining was waaaaay to long, and fat ass he-man sucked.
The music was OK, but that was the only good thing

Yes, I think the world is more or less united in the knowledge that the game sucks. Although I did find it's ridiculousness somewhat amusing at times.
The point of this thread is to clarify whether the statistics pointed out in the game are correct or not- hence, the thread is called "Bush Game- True or False", and not "Bush Game- Good or not".

Now that most people seem to agree that the statistics are truthful, the question is resolved.

 

[Perfection]

Hmmm, that really spoke to me, considering that in terms of assets I'm in the top 1 or 2% and I'm the son of a CEO and they decide to show my father as a pig and myself as Paris Hilton...

jerks

Edit: Oh and that "fact" that CEOs make 512xthe employees is total bullcrap. It might be true for say fortune 500 companies, but that's about it!

 

[LLXerxes]

Yes, I think the world is more or less united in the knowledge that the game sucks. Although I did find it's ridiculousness somewhat amusing at times.
The point of this thread is to clarify whether the statistics pointed out in the game are correct or not- hence, the thread is called "Bush Game- True or False", and not "Bush Game- Good or not".

Now that most people seem to agree that the statistics are truthful, the question is resolved.

Sry, I was just commenting on it's crappieness...

But, it is mostly true.

 

[Hygro]

Edit: Oh and that "fact" that CEOs make 512xthe employees is total bullcrap. It might be true for say fortune 500 companies, but that's about it!

It's the average.

 

[Perfection]

It's the average.

And it's wrong! There are hundreds of thousands of corperations in the states each with CEOs, very few have 8 figure salaries.

 

[RedFusion]

That number has to refer to large company CEO's exclusively. Perfection is absolutely right, it is not a correct figure if you take into account all CEO's. I looked it up and i found one site that gave the average CEO a salary of $543,898. link

But i found several different numbers for the the average CEO of a large corporation and that varied from as low as $8 million to as high as $12 million. The average joe's salary ranged from $23,000 to $36,000 a year. So if you take the low end of the average joe's salary and the high end of the large company CEO's you get about 521x the average joe's to the corporate CEO's salary. So the numbers they use in the game are definitely misleading, but one could argue that they aren't really "false." Just like the Bush administration argued that it never said that Saddam Hussein was an "imminent" threat.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

All tue. THe game was OK
But, Paris Hiltons Car thing was impossible, and Fat ass he-man justplain sucked.

All the characters are the exact same thing....

 

[Hygro]

Just like the Bush administration argued that it never said that Saddam Hussein was an "imminent" threat.

Um, they Bush administration did actually say that. I read this recently--a bunch of significant quotes by important top cabinate members and the president, and imminate threat was in fact directly used.

 

[philippe]

not a good game but some facts shocked me that can't be true

 

[~Corsair#01~]

Interesting, I'd completely forgot about that bit about corporations...
Yes, that part is probably false, but what really matters are the 5 trillion deficit and, did anyone find out if that "50% of tax breaks going to top 1% by 2010" part was true?
What about the part about Bush's party taking bribes?

 

[carlosMM]

"50% of tax breaks going to top 1% by 2010"


this seems pretty much true if you look at the proposed legislation.

 

[RedFusion]

Um, they Bush administration did actually say that. I read this recently--a bunch of significant quotes by important top cabinate members and the president, and imminate threat was in fact directly used.

You're right, i guess McClellan used it on 2/10/03 link. It was late and i only remembered that the administration only used words like "grave threat," "immidiate threat" and so on. But that starts straying too off-topic.

 

[Alex the Great]

I think the whole relation between Republican and Democratic scandals is this. The republicans have the typical corruption, corporate bribery, bad economics, etc. which no one really cares about or at least its hard to get excited about. Then the democratic scandals are more outrageous and interesting to the general populace. Hence we can watch clinton/fdr/truman/buchanan till the cows come home. But you have to use a cheesy video game to make corruption with bush and whatnot semi-intersting.
Summed up: PBS versus Oprah

Decently fun timewaster of a game.