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"Deficit Spender Bush" <Red Ink Bush@rnc.org> wrote in message
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Nothing, thats what. Did I miss some big accomplishment?

Just list it here:

- Caught Saddam Hussein

Given Iraqis the opportunity to get hepatitis from drinking
sewage-contaminated water in the middle of a civil war, rather than
having to suffer working electricity, water, and sewers, while
maintaining the Iraqi traditions of being afraid of innocent people
being snatched up off the street in a random sweep and tortured to
death in secret, while the leader of their nation, who they did not
elect, keeps insisting that they are actually doing fine and things
are getting better. (Although Rumsfeld does admit 'nothing's perfect')

Better than the 1.5 million that died from starving/malnutrition under US/UK
sanctions (while Clinton was President).

- Arrested/captured numerous Al Qaeda members and removed the Taliban
from
power

Erased Osama bin Laden from his own memory and that of the American
public by never mentioning his name. That'll teach the *****!

He's on the run and more and more reports say we are getting close.

Better
than lobbing cruise missiles.

- Raised education spending by 58% in 3 years

If you consider a raise from $18.5 billion in 2001 to $22.5 billion
requested in 2005 to be 58%.

- Has, thus far, prevented another major attack on U.S. soil

after presiding over the first one

- Libyan disarmament

after only 18 years of economic sanctions and trade embargoes.

so? It's happening, isn't it?

- Increased funding for AIDS sufferers

promised a $10 billion increase in AIDS spending over 5 years, in the
State of the Union, which unfortunately turned into $200 million in
the 2004 budget, which was covered by cutting $500 million from the
childrens' health budget.

does Bush = congress ?

- Tax cut which may or may not be leading us out of the recession which
Bush
inherited and which was accentuated by 9/11

And which may or may not be caused by the tax cuts which were
originally touted as his way of cooling down the 'overheated economy'

How could they be the cause when the recession began in the 4th quarter of
2000?

and are now supposed to be the way to fire up the overcooled down
economy, and either way are leaving us with a deficit that requires
enormous investment from overseas to cover, in the middle of a war
that is costing us a bundle but which we are doing badly at because we
are not spending enough, at the same time as he is alienating other
nations in regards to not just our politics, but also our stability,
to the point where the World Bank is now lecturing us about deficit
spending just like they were doing to Mexico a few years back.

Who gives a damn what other nations and/or the World Bank think?

In article <lD16d.5723$%t3.315@lakeread01>,

1. Liberated 50,000,000 people from the dictatorships in Iraq and
Afghanistan

You mean he got us into another Vietnam quagmire. The decision
to attack Iraq may well be the greatest blunder in U.S. history.

2. Greatest economy boost since the Reagan years.

huh? by what measure?

3. Sent ME an tax refund check and reduced MY personal tax bill.

Bush borrowed more money to give you a tax cut. What an
accomplishment. Gimme a break.

4. Created the proper atmosphere for businesses to create REAL jobs for
people to take on.

Really? What did he do, specifically?

5. Shown the world that the USA means what it says!

Like disregarding the Geneva Convention, Abu Graib? That
really won the hearts of Iraqi's.
Meddling in Iraq's "democratic" election?

6. Thrown the liberals into such a panic they had to put a monkey lurch
type up for the office.

7. and on and on...

That's pretty weak, man. Couldn't you give us a rundown of
accomplisments? . . . Like Clinton did on 8/14/2000:

"Today we have gone from the largest deficit in history to the
largest surpluses in history.

And if -- but only if we stay on course, we can make America debt
free for the first time since Andy Jackson was president in 1835.

Or for the first time in decades.

Wages are rising at all income levels, we have the lowest
child poverty in 20 years, the lowest poverty rate for single
mothers ever recorded.

The average family's income has gone up more than $5,000, and
for African-American families, even more.

The number of families who own stock in our country has grown by
40 percent.

You know, Harry Truman's old saying has never been more true.

"If you want to live like a Republican, you better vote for the
Democrats."

But our progress is about far more than economics.

America is also more hopeful, more secure, and more free.

We're more hopeful because we're turning our schools around with
higher standards, more accountability, more investment.

We have doubled funding for Head Start and provided after school
and mentoring to more than a million more young people.

We're putting 100,000 well-trained teachers in the early grades
to lower class size.

95 percent of our schools are already connected to the Internet.

Reading, math, and SAT scores are up and more students than ever are
going on to college thanks to the biggest expansion of college aid
since the G.I. Bill fifty years ago.

Now, don't let anybody tell you that all children can't learn or
that our public schools can't make the grade.

Yes, they can. Yes, they can.

Now, we're also more hopeful because we ended welfare as we knew it.

Now those who can work must work.

On that we and the Republicans agree.

But we Democrats also insisted on support for good parenting.

So that poor children don't go hungry or lose their health care,
unmarried teens stay in school, and people get the job training,
child care, and transportation they need.

It has worked.

Today there are more than 7 1/2 million people who have moved from
welfare to work, and the welfare rolls in our administration have
been cut in half.

Because of the way we cut taxes, to help Americans meet the challenges
of working and child rearing, this year alone our Hope scholarship and
Life-Long Learning tax credits will help ten million families pay for
college.

Our Earned Income tax credit will help 15 million families work their
way into the middle class. 25 million families will get a $500 child
tax credit.

Our Empowerment tax zone credits are bringing new businesses and new
jobs to our hardest pressed communities from the inner cities to
Appalachia to the Mississippi delta to our native American reservations.

And the typical American family today is paying a lower share of its
income in federal income taxes than at anytime during the past 35 years.

We are more hopeful because of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

A bill that the previous administration vetoed.

They said it would cost jobs.

It's the first bill I signed.

And we now have a test.

Twenty-two million new jobs later, over twenty million Americans have
been able to take a little time off to care for a newborn child or a
sick relative.

That's what it means.

That's what it really means to be pro-family.

We are a more secure country because we cut crime with tougher
enforcement, more than 100,000 new community police officers, a ban on
assault weapons, and the Brady law, which has kept guns out of the hands
of half a million felons, fugitives and stalkers.

Today, crime in America is at a twenty-five year low.

And we're more secure because of advances in health care.

We've extended the life of the Medicare trust fund by 26 years, added
coverage for cancer screening, and cutting edge clinical trials.

We're coming closer to cures for dreaded diseases.

We made sure that people with disabilities could go to work without losing
their health care, and that people could switch jobs without losing their
coverage.

We dramatically improved diabetes care, we provided health coverage under
the Children's Health Insurance Program to two million previously
uninsured
children, and for the first time in our history, more than 90 percent of
our kids have been immunized against serious childhood diseases.

You can be proud of that Democratic record.

We are more secure because our environment is cleaner.

We have set aside more land in the lower 48 states than any administration
since Teddy Roosevelt.

Saving national treasures like Yellowstone, the great California Redwoods,
the Florida Everglades.

Moreover, our air is cleaner, our water is cleaner, our food is safer, and
our economy is stronger.

You can grow the economy and protect the environment at the same time.

Now, we are more free because we are closer today to the one America of
our
dreams.

Celebrating our diversity, affirming our common humanity, opposing all
forms
of bigotry from church burnings to racial profiling to murderous hate
crimes.

We are fighting for the employment nondiscrimination legislation and for
equal pay for women.

We have found ways to mend, not end affirmative action.

We have given America the most diverse administration in history.

It really looks like America.

You know, if I could just get my administration up here, it would be just
as
good a picture as anything you saw a couple of weeks ago in Philadelphia,
the
real people running it.

And, and we created Americorps, which already has given more than 150,000
of
our young people a chance to earn some money for college by serving in our
communities.

We are more secure and we are more free because of our leadership in the
world
for peace, freedom and prosperity, helping to end a generation of conflict
in
northern Ireland, stopping a brutal ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo
and
bringing the Middle East closer than ever to a comprehensive peace.

We have -- we have built stronger ties to Africa, Asia and our, Latin
American
and Caribbean neighbors, we brought Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic
into
NATO. We're working with Russia to destroy nuclear weapons and materials.

We are fighting head on the new threats and injustices of the global age,
terrorism, narcotrafficking, biological and chemical warfare. The
trafficking
of women and young girls and the deadly spread of aids and in the great
tradition of President Jimmy Carter, who is here tonight, we are still the
world's leading force for human rights around the world.

Thank you, President Carter.

Now, the American military is the best trained, best equipped, most
effective
fighting force in the world.

Our men and women have shown that time and again in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in
Haiti,
in Iraq.

I can tell you that their strength, their spirit, their courage and their
commitment to freedom have never been greater.

Any adversary who believes those who say otherwise is making a grave
mistake.

Now, now, my fellow Americans, that is the record.

Or as that very famous Los Angeles detective, Sergeant Joe Friday used to
say,
"Just the facts, ma'am."

Let's remember, I ask you, let's, I ask you, let's remember the standard
our
Republican friends used to have for whether a party should continue in
office.

My fellow Americans, are we better off today than we were eight years ago?

You bet we are.

You bet we are.

Yes, we are.

Yes, we are.

But, but -- yes, we are, but we are not just better off.

We are also a better country.

We are today more tolerant, more decent, more humane and more united.

Now, that's the purpose of prosperity.

Since 1992, America has grown not just economically, but as a community.

Yes, jobs are up, but so are adoptions.

Yes, the debt is down, but so is teen pregnancy.

We are becoming both more diverse and more united.

My fellow Americans, tonight we can say with gratitude and humility, we
built
our bridge to the 21st century.

We crossed that bridge together, and we are not going back. . . "