Conservatives - can you give one concrete example of anything positive the current administration has done?

Question

I want examples of things that have impacted your lives PERSONALLY. Please be specific about what is was that they did and how it improved YOUR life.

Dylan... and this inproved your life.... HOW?

Rock and Roll.... How exactly did you get more money? And if "there hasn't been any more terrorist attacks" is what you can come up with for positives, then Clinton should be your hero... we NEVER had people flying planes into buildings under his watch.

Senior - Check your facts. "Unemployment" is NOT at an all time Low. Once your unemployment benefits run out, they stop counting you. And the stock market might be doing ok right now, but our county is more in debt than it has EVER been. So ok.. you might be working right now, but you are making your GRAND CHILDREN pay your bills. How very conservative of you.

ludstorm - Bankrupcies and Forclosures are also higher than they've ever been. Check back in 5 years and let us know if you still have your house.

Lone Star - Check your facts... Government Revenue is NOT up... we have had to raise the debt ceiling THREE times since Bush started his spending spree...We are BORROWING more money. How is THAT good for our county?

Turbo - LOL - Your funny! Record government surplus, lower poverty numbers and low unemployment... a recession. Oh.. I really must get the same dictionary that you use...

Answer 1

I'm going to put this question on my "watch" list, because if anyone can come up with ANYTHING, I really want to know what it could possibly be...
Well I knew this would be fun! if it wasn't so damn sad...I have posed the same question to the radio talk show geeks and they do the same thing Accuse Democrats of posturing and then saying something absurd like "Well I'm safer now then I ever was under Clinton" Well there wasn't a 9/11 catastrophe under Clinton, it's your guy that let the Country down.. And that their rhetorical answer is always "well it was all in motion before we came into power" doesn't sit well with the "We have saved the United Staes, because Bush got up on a heap of stones and talked with a bullhorn" They want everything both ways! The fear they are trying to instill in the common man is based on what? We haven't had an Orange elevated terrorist warning since right before the elections. it saddens me that as a nation were are so divided (I'm A UNITER not a DIVIDER< at lest that's my STRATEGERY)

Answer 2

I'm not conservative, I consider myself open minded, but I did get a nice tax break that imporved my life cause I can provide better for my kids.
No one has flown a plane into my office, that's been kind of nice, it hasn't really improved my life, but it may have extended it. I
I laugh a lot more now, because watching W is like watching Spicoli. I like stupid people humor.
You can't put all the blame for 9/11 on Bush. It is a known fact they started planning the attack after the initial bombing of trade center under the Clinton administration. Remember Bush had 8 months to do what Clinton didn't do for 8 years. Blaming Bush is like saying it wouldn't have happened under Gore.
Giving Clinton the credit for the budget surplus he had is also not correct. It was the dot coms that created the budget surplus. Who ever was is would have gotten credit.
As far as Iraq never attacking us, neither did Kosovo yet we went there too.
You can spin it anyway you want to, either to make one or the other of the last two president look good, bad or however you want. We are not the media, folks keep an open mind, you can make both sides look stupid just by eliminating facts, that is what they do. We should be better then that.

Answer 3

Senior Citizen,
Unemployment is still higher than it was under Clinton, and the Stock Exchange still hasn't beaten the record high under Clinton.

Also, the average wage is dropping and the cost of healthcare and fuel is rapidly rising, meaning average Americans have less to spend.

The numbers look great, but it's not translating because so many of the jobs are low-money service-sector jobs and so many costs have risen that many people still have a hard time making ends meet.

Answer 4

They have reduced confiscatory taxes, which puts more money in my pocket, and which also improves the economy to the effect that total government revenue is up.

And yes, revenue is up. The debt ceiling has been raised due to pork barrel spending by both parties--unfortunately that is the nature of politicians. But don't tell me the Liberals would lower spending. Remember the Great Society--money down a rathole.

Answer 5

- Improved the economy after the recession he inherited from Clinton
- Led the world in eliminating the Taliban and Saddam
- Led the world in creating a multinational agreement to interdict WMD proliferation
- Has given more $$ to fight AIDS in Africa than any other president.
- Has brought to justice all the criminal CEOs that were living it up in previous administrations
- War on Terror

There are a number of negatives, too. But there is no such thing as a perfect presidency. You really need more balance in your life. Your negative vibes threaten to derange you.

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YOU need to check your facts, the economy started slowing down in 2000. I have attached an article from the WaPo (hardly a Bush-supporting newspaper) citing economists placing the recession in Clinton's administration, under Clinton's budget year. Facts, me bucko, facts.

Answer 6

This is a very good question. I am not conservative but it makes me think about it anyway. I don't think I have been impacted in my personal or professional life.
Not yet anyway. Families of fallen and wounded soilders have been imparced. The debt this Country is in has got to come home to roost at some point. And we will begin to miss our freedoms.
The environment is being neglected and ignored.
One thing I see is that illegal immigrants are taking over our neighborhoods and our schools and changing our culture to match the one from which they escaped.

Answer 7

How about two examples? Employment is near an all-time low and the stock market is near an all-time high. That's not bad for someone who has worked and saved for over half a century and still prefers to do so. It won't appeal to those who are willing to drop out of school, live on the public dole, and contribute nothing to society.

Answer 8

Well, if I were chmn or shareholder of Exxon, I would be enraptured at the way they managed to massage the price of a gallon of gas to $3/gallon. What better way to rattle futures speculators than to attack a middle eastern country (which did not attack us) and threaten to attack another. Makes me nervous just thinking about it. How do you think the people who gamble on the supply of crude must feel.

And they wrapped it up in a bunch of patriotic jargon to boot.

Oh, and I love the taste of mercury, so by lowering environmental standards about mercury content in the atmosphere, it's like free condiments for every meal.

And if I worked at the rotten, inept CIA, I would be real glad they gave up the name of one of my fellow undercover agents. What a boost to morale - to be personally recognized by the White House!

AND, if I was a newly born child, I would be thrilled to pay off a national debt of NINE TRILLION DOLLARS, including the 3 highest annual deficits in US history, courtesy of Bush and his "conservative" Congress. Why, if I had any extra money, I'd just buy food and stuff (assuming there are any jobs when Igrow up). If I wasn't fortunate enough to be born rich, I barely deserve to live.

And if I was on unemployment, well I'd just give up finding a decent job in this economy, what with the few jobs that haven't been sourced to India being taken by many of those 15 million illegals Bush and friends want to make citizens. That would make the unemploment rate go down and everyone would be happy. Hell, I'd probably just shoot myself.

Answer 9

Combined with the fact that home ownership under Bush is higher than anyone ever in the entire history of the USA, both in total volume and percentages, his tax cut and pro-home policies enabled me to get my new house.

Answer 10

They prooved to me the general ignorance and selfishness of conservative people... so now I don't feel like I am stereotyping and I don't feel bad hating conservatives... because anyone who voted for this administration has blood on their hands and my little brother dodging bullets for a BS war.

so i no longer tread lightly around my disdain for conservative values... now i really, truly, hate conservatives... and with good reason..

that is not necessarily a "good" thing... short of some sort of AA theory of knowing thee problem in order to fix it...