What do you think of Bushs as President?

Question

I personally think he's a piece of crap.

To answer someones question, I did not vote for Bush. Nor will I vote for his brother in '08. As far as I'm concerned, Bush is the worst President we've had in a long long time.

Answer 1

Gosh were to start.....

Here is 25 reasons for ya.

25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH

Economic Indicators

1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000

2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.

3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.

4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.

5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.

6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.

7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.

8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.

9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators

10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.

11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.

12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.

13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.

14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.

15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.

16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.

Crime and Drug Use Indicators

17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.

18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rate increased by 3.9 percent, and the rate of property crimes increased by 2.2 percent.

19.Drug use is increasing. Drug use among all Americans increased by 13 percent between 2000 and 2001, including significant increases in the use of marijuana and cocaine. Among young adults, the percentage of drug users increased by over 20 percent between 2000 and 2001. The number of Americans in need of drug treatment increased from 4.7 million in 2000 to 6.1 million in 2001.


Environmental Indicators

20.Air pollution is increasing. Recently released data indicate that the number of times that air quality exceeded the health standard for ground-level ozone, or smog, almost doubled between 2000 and 2002.

21.Fuel economy is declining as global warming accelerates. Automobile and light truck fuel economy declined in 2001, reaching their lowest levels since 1980.

22. Overall, average fuel economy levels have declined by 8 percent since reaching their peak in 1998. At the same time, 2001 was the second warmest year on record

23. And areas across the country are experiencing their worst droughts in decades.

24. The stock market has crashed more since George W Bush took office than any other president in history, including the great crash of Herbert Hoover in 1929. Actually, since Bush took office the market has gone down TWICE what it did at the beginning of the Great Depression.

25. Since Jan 20, 2001 when George W Bush became president there has been $5 trillion dollars lost by investors in the stock market. (note- that figure is through Sept 30 and does not include the additional $800 billion lost during the last 10 days of the George Bush administration).



The Resume of George W. Bush
George W. Bush
The White House, USA

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

LAW ENFORCEMENT:
--I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol.

--I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days.
My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

MILITARY:
--I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

COLLEGE:
--I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
I was a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
--I ran or U.S. Congress and lost.

--I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975.
I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas.
The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

--I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

--With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
--I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.

--I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

--I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.

--With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
--I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

--I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

--I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

--I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

--I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

--I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

--I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.

--In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

--I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

--I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.

--I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.
More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.

--I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

--I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.

--I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

--I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.

--I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.

--I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.

--I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

--I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

--I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

--I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

--I set the record for fewest number of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.

--I set the the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period.
After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

--I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

--I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.

--I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in wartime.

--In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends.

--I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security. I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical bunker Buster," a WMD.

--I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

--All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

--All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

--All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

**And I Think The US Constitution Is
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"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
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Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.


Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.


Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

People look at all this and think of Hitler - and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.

There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight.

There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn - or be forced - to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.

And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.

Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.

The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Answer 2

Well, as far as his character is concerned he might be an alright guy. But as far as his leadership ability goes, I think he's absolutely horrible. Lets take a look,

1.) 9-11 happened under his watch.

2.) Environmental laws have been eroded which directly harms the health and safety of Americans.

3.) Personal freedoms and privacy have taken a huge hit with certain provisions of the Patriot Act.

4.) The budget deficit has ballooned to the highest its ever been and will be the burden of many generations of future Americans.

5.) Our world image has suffered under his refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty.

6.) The war was planned very badly and has cost thousands of lives both American and Iraqi.

7.) The country has become more divided than it has ever been in history.

8.) His approval rating is at an all-time low.

9.) He has very bad men running his cabinet who never served in the military but who wage wars like its a game of chess.

10.) His grammar and public speaking ability are not very good for being the leader of the free world.

Answer 3

Can we get over it please. Every single day we have to hear about our bad President. How does this make us look in the world?
Americans are a bunch of spoiled, lazy, ignorant brats with the attention span of two year olds.

You want another President? Get off your lazy *** and vote in every election and get everyone you know to vote. Then if there is a change, you had something to do with it. And if the officials you elect don't do the job you expect, go out and vote again.

YA GET IT !!!!

If you didn't vote, stop whining about something you had no hand in choosing.

Otherwise, move to another country.

Answer 4

Wow, it's scary how many of you are buying into Bush's BS.

We had freedom of speech before he came along and if things keep going the way they are under him, we won't have it for long.

Have you noticed that whenever people speak against Bush, someone calls them "unAmerican" or a "terrorist". One of the freedoms of speech is that we can speak against our leadership if we don't agree with them. Yet, it's like people on hear are saying, "he gave you freedom of speech, so shut up". Makes no sense.

Bush is the terrorist. And all he's doing with these "terrorist" attacks is using them to keep people in fear, so that when he takes away more of our freedoms in the name of "safety", we will all cooperate like good little boys and girls. Do some research. Find out for yourselves. Think for yourselves. Look at all sides and investigate before you automatically agree with Bush.

Answer 5

Bush family continuing Presidency? Hey, might as well hand them the deeds to the U.S. They already own a large percent of the U.S., literally. Research what companies they own and how much they're worth. You'll be very surprised and maybe scared.

Answer 6

I personally think that George Bush is the best we have to fight the war on terror. But for domestic issues at home, he is one of the worst! Mistakes were made in Iraq,but I would hate to see what would have happened if Gore had been President

Answer 7

Do you know of any good things Pres George W. has done?
1. Gave a tax break for income earned tax credit for the poor. (If you do not know of it you have a bad tax accountant or are too rich to need to know.)
2. Gave funding for Faith based schools. Helping HIGHER education! Which gives more of a choice for schools.
3. He made relations with Mongolia! He went to Mongolia recently a Country that has been closed off to the world since forever.
4. He is defending us and the World (England, India etc.) from a sneaky enemy of muslim terrorists.
5. He is ensuring a future of oil for our country for the use of your T.V and microwave. (All the other countries politic one way or another to keep thier supply available.)
6. He is keeping our borders and interior safe by creating a task force called Home Land Security.
7. They stopped Russia from invading Ahfganistan and creating a communist territory. (A Big favor to the ungrateful muslim's.)
8.He changed medicare to help seniors with prescript/med costs.
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Oh yea, he also increased the pay and incentives for the U.S. Military!
***AND...
He is the best friend Israel has ever had. Considering that Israel is the only viable Democracy in the Middle East and that it is the front line in the war against terrorism, that is pretty major.

God bless Bush and god bless Israel!
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Answer 8

Yeah??? Well, allot you know then. What exactly do you base your opinion on?? Well??????? Your ignorance is a bit overwelming, but, not surprising!

I think President Bush is a good President, with our best interests at heart, allot more reliable to do the job than Clinton, that is for sure!

Answer 9

He is definitely has gone too far and wrong. I would like to put some bad words for him but Islam prohibit me to say those words,

"O you who believe! Let not a group scoff at another group, it may be that the latter are better than the former; nor let (some) women scoff at other women, it may be that the latter are better than the former, nor defame one another, nor insult one another by nicknames. How bad is it, to insult one's brother after having Faith [i.e. to call your Muslim brother (a faithful believer) as: "O sinner", or "O wicked", etc.]. And whosoever does not repent, then such are indeed Zâlimûn (wrong-doers, etc.). [Surah Al-Hujarat Ayah 11].

peace

Answer 10

I thank God we have had men such as President Bush as our ELECTED leaders!!! It truly is because of men like him that you have the legal and protected (by the lives of men and women in the armed forces - since 1773!) right to say nasty untrue things about our President and live to tell about it. Praise God for George W. Bush - President of the Greatest Nation on Earth!

Answer 11

President Bush is doing the best job he can, under the circumstances. At least he is working, unlike Clinton, who instead found it acceptable to have sex on "our time" in the oval office and commit adultery to boot!! If a Democrat was in office, he would have decreased defense spending and increased welfare for lazy Americans. We wouldn't have any security at all under a Democrat's rule. I'm glad Bush is in office.
God Bless America