Bush's Successes
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| Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm |
Dear Reader,
I'm getting sick and tired of my fellow Americans
saying that the presidency of George W. Bush is a
failure. With the string of successes he's had,
nothing could be further from the truth. Let me list a
few:
1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling
budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion
deficit.
2. He has successfully helped America's trading
partners have the highest trade surplus with us in
America's history.
3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the
richest Americans and corporations at the expense of
99% of the American population.
4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in
Iraq after lying to the whole world.
5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to
the highest level ever here in America.
6. He has successfully allowed American corporations
to dramatically increase their pollution.
7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the
population out of work.
8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export
our best middle-class jobs.
9. He has successfully divided our country as never
before.
10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.
11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never
before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a
divider).
12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the
constitution of the United States of America.
13. He has successfully united Democrats (yay!) as
they haven't been for years (I told you he was a
uniter).
14. He has successfully driven me out of the
Republican party for the rest of my life.
You know, with a string of successes like that, it's a
wonder America is still standing.

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I can't argue you with that 9/11 hurt the economy but my investment started going down prior to that so that wasn't the only cause. See above.
We have the highest deficit in history. The first net job loss since Hoover, over 5 million people have lost their health insurance, so please show me the FACTS how Bush has improved our economy.
These are the things that have affected the economy and the market.
First, the book cooking happened mainly during the Clinton years (which has something to do with why the stock market went as high as it did), but you cannot blame Clinton for this, so how is it possible to blame Bush?
Second, the reason why Lay has not been brought to trial yet, as from what I have been reading, the case against him is not exactly the strongest, as he distanced himself from much of what happened at Enron. He was very smart. I believe he knew very well what was going on, but never had a direct hand in any of it, from what I have read, which is going to make it difficult to prove the entire case against him, unfortunately, as I believe people like Ken Lay should have to forfeit all of their personal assets, and then spend the next 20 years in jail at hard labor.
-- I can't argue you with that 9/11 hurt the economy but my investment started going down prior to that so that wasn't the only cause.
That is because when Bush was sworn in, the country was in the beginning stages of a recession.
I have run down the economic thing numerous times, and it takes too long to do again, but in a nutshell, these are the things that went against the economy:
1) The recession when Bush took office
2) The collapse of the Tech Sector, and Dot.com booms (late summer 2000 into early winter 2001)
3) 9/11 and the impact on several businesses, including tourism and travel
4) The book cooking scandals at Enron, Worldcomm, Global Crossing, etc.
If you look back, the economy started to show signs of life in August of 2001, and then 9/11 set it back another 2 1/2 years. Since 9/11 the DOW has recovered most of what it lost (I think about 80%).
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