Bush's Successes

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Bush's Successes
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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm
The Successes of President George Bush

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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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-06-2004
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 12:33pm
because everything is Bush's fault!
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-12-2001
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 12:47pm
Yeah, that's pretty much been the rallying cry of the Democrats this campaign season, hasn't it? Pretty simplistic if you ask me.

Bev

girl in chair
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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 4:41pm
The only "economic policy" that a President has is tax cuts, tax increases, and hopefully a little help from the Fed with interest rates.
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Registered: 09-24-2003
Tue, 09-28-2004 - 6:38pm
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Registered: 04-16-2004
Wed, 09-29-2004 - 10:37am
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Registered: 09-29-2004
Wed, 09-29-2004 - 4:56pm
Thank God!!!!! I am so tried of hearing the same thing. This man is destroying our counrty. I am so ashamed that we put this crazy man in office. If this man is re-appointed I may just move out of this counrty!!!!!
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Registered: 08-07-2004
Wed, 09-29-2004 - 6:41pm
Dontcha know everything is always Clinton's fault?
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Registered: 04-18-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 1:33am

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Registered: 09-09-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 8:06am
Well, now that you bring up Enron, Bush and Ken Lay are "buddies". I have to wonder why it has taken so long to prosecute him for his obvious illegal activities. As for his economic policies - a tax cut that has benefited the rich. Please don't tell me how it has helped the middle class. I'm middle class and I didn't receive a dime from his so-called tax cuts. Bush & Company claims that outsourcing helps our economy, how can that be when you have people who are losing their jobs and are unable to "invest". His claims that giving these tax cuts to the rich will "trickle" down is so untrue. They keep this money for themselves. They don't invest, therefore, stocks go down. The rich have people to advise them to pull their money out, which they obviously have done, hurting small investors, who don't have financial advisors.

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.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-16-2004
Thu, 09-30-2004 - 10:02am
-- Well, now that you bring up Enron, Bush and Ken Lay are "buddies". I have to wonder why it has taken so long to prosecute him for his obvious illegal activities. I would be willing to bet that Bush does not offer Ken Lay a pardon so he can donate a few million to the George W Bush Presidential library. Can anyone say Mark Rich?

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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