I am not sure that he is a criminal. If so, he is a criminal who has done some very good things like.....
•Signed the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill - reduces the amount of soft money influence for supporting candidates.
•Bush is the first president to allow federal funds to be spent on embryo cell research.
•Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - devotes $15 billion over 5 years to treat current AIDS victims in Africa and prevent new cases. Another $1 billion devoted for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
•Signed the National Do Not Call Registry - Who wouldn’t support a bill that keeps telemarketers from interrupting dinner?
•Created the Marriage Tax Credit and cut income taxes for married couples.
•Increased the Child Tax Credit and arranged for it to double over 10 years.
•Elimination of dividend tax, increasing the rate of return on 401(K) and 403(B) retirement accounts.
•Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001- (remember getting that check? Were you not happy to get a little of your money back?) This act also reduced the tax bracket of the lowest wage earners to 10%. Six million poor people now pay no tax at all.
•Doubled the Lifetime Learning Credit and increased the Hope Scholarship Tax Credit - encourages enrollment in higher education and provides financial relief for college students and/or their families.
•No Child Left Behind- Yes, this one is widely debated regarding underfunding by congress. However, it is a more sound education initiative than has ever been proposed before.
•American Competitiveness Initiative – Strengthening children’s math and science skills by providing additional training for 70,000 math and science teachers and bringing 30,000 math and science professional into the classroom.
•Jobs for the 21st Century Program - helps schools by providing $250 million to promote partnerships between community colleges and employers, $33 million for Pell Grants for low-income students, $100 million to improve high school reading, $120 million to improve high school math, $12 million to provide state scholars grants, $40 million to create Adjunct Teachers Corps.
•Medicare Reform including “Part B” - prescription drug assistance for the elderly. Now, all seniors are eligible and the poor are subsidized. There is a prescription cost cap at 6,000/year.
•Child Custody Protection Act- Makes it a federal offense to transport a child across state lines without a parent’s consent.
•Mental Health Parity Bill - forces insurance companies to treat and pay for psychiatric illnesses the same as any other medical condition.
•Humanitarian foreign policy including billions devoted to Pakistan following the 2005 earthquake and to Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami.
•Personally visited New Orleans 13 times in the year following Katrina.
•Appointed more minorities to his cabinet and the Supreme Court than any other president.
•Supported approval of RU-486 (morning after pill).
•New Freedom Initiative - devotes $145 billion over 5 years to help disabled people afford assistive technologies, fund innovations for transportation of the disabled, expand employment opportunities, and improve access to places of worship.
•DNA Initiative - devotes $1 billion to expand the use of DNA evidence in solving crimes and preventing wrongful convictions.
•Access to Recovery Program - provides $200 million for chemical dependency treatment for addicts via vouchers.
•Increased funding for research on addiction through the Substance Abuse Prevention Treatment Grant
•Increased budget of National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to $442 million.
•Increased budget of National Institute on Drug Abuse to $1.19 billion.
•Increased budget of Substance Abuse Prevention Program to $200 million.
•Increased budget of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to $419 million.
•Doubled NIH budget to $28 billion.
•Family Health Credit - Pays 90% of low income health insurance policy.
•Devoted $3.6 billion for 1200 new community centers.
•Restricted teen smoking by signing several tough federal laws.
•Initiated the Low Income Heating Oil Assistance Program
•Established the USA Freedom Corps to encourage individuals to volunteer in their local communities through numerous volunteer service programs.
•Devoted $1.7 billion over 5 years for attractive home rehab loans in poor neighborhoods.
•Appointed Laura Bush to head the Anti-Gang Initiative (It is customary for all First Ladies to have appointments to lead their own projects to help at-risk youth).
•Passed 13-week extension of unemployment benefits.
•Clear Skies Initiative - among many other things this will reduce the intensity of greenhouse gases by 18% and reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury by 70% over 10 years.
•Land and Water Conservation Fund - provides $900 million in incentives for conservation efforts by states, local, and private land owners.
•Land Owner Incentive Program - helps private land owners protect animal species and conservation.
•President’s Awards for Private Stewardship Program - recognizes and honors excellent examples of land conservation by private owners.
•FreedomFUEL Initiative - devotes $ 1.7 billion to make hydrogen cars common by 2020.
•Brownfields Reform Bill - devotes $211 million annually to clean neglected and abandoned urban areas.
•Devoted $4.9 million to repair national parks and refuges.
•Adoption Promotion Act - provides incentives for the adoption of children, with added incentives for adopting older children.
•Hope for Children Act - Increased adoption tax credit to $10,000 for all adoptions.
•Promoted sweeping improvements of the child welfare system including adoption and foster care agencies, daycares, and caseworkers.
•Project Childsafe - makes homes with firearms safer. Among other things, it provides firearm safety education to children and free gun locks and safety kits to parents.
•Kept background checks at gun shows and kept all other permanent restrictions/gun laws. He did allow the “Assualt Weapons Ban” to expire, which was not a ban on assault weapons at all.
•New Prosperity Initiative - Provides a $2000 health insurance tax credit, home rental vouchers, homeowner tax credits, and 50% tax credit for 20,000 new home rehabs per year.
•Initiated $7.4 billion in tax incentives for purchasing nursing home insurance and financial relief for people who care for an elderly or disabled person at home.
•FutureGen Initiative – will allow the US to build the world’s first power plant to run on coal and remove virtually all pollutants.
•Advanced Energy Initiative - will reduce the use of non-renewable fuel resources by focusing on development of cheap, clean, and safe nuclear power production as well as new alternative energy sources.
•Biodiesel Tax Incentive- As part of the “Jobs Bill,” this encourages the use of biodiesel fuel to be mixed in higher proportion with petroleum fuel.
Here are some things Bush supports and wants to get passed:
•Immigration reform including a “guest worker program” and amnesty for Mexicans who have been in the United States illegally for several years.
•Energy Independence- For fiscal year 2007, proposing $44 million for wind energy research, $150 million for solar technology research,
•Patient Bill of Rights including eliminating gatekeepers for specialists like gynecologists, placing doctors in charge of deciding the correct treatment, reducing premiums, and allowing patients to participate in clinical trials of medications.
•Replace 75% of oil imports by 2025.
•Create a “Father’s Registry” to force accountability and involvement of fathers who may otherwise avoid financial support of their children.
2006-09-02 22:21:20
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answered by Anonymous
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If he didn't lie than he made some serious errors in judgment and should be held accountable. I agree with another poster when it comes to Micheal moore, he is an opportunist (capitalist) and does capitalize on polarizing issues. Ann coulter does the exact same thing, they are just common capitalists capitalizing on us. One problem is that people look for the news that agrees with them and pass any other news source off as propaganda from some evil Illuminati, shadowy millionaire in a bunker somewhere that they think is bent on controlling all of us, in short people have gone conspiracy crazy. This whole country has divided like Ive never seen before and the real problem is that there seems to be a seething hatred boiling between many of us and I truly fear that things are going to get much worse before they get better.
2006-09-02 15:53:42
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answered by j 1
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Have you checked out loosechange.com? If not, you must. There is no doubt that Bush is a criminal, he is leading this nation to a more autocratic democracy. Which is to say that there isn't a democracy. He vetos necessities and curtails "the people" for his hidden agenda. This man is no joke, and it may be too late to turn things around. If the American people weren't so damn passive about the direction this country is heading, Bush may have been impeached when he cheated his way into the presidency.
2006-09-02 15:35:52
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answered by Anonymous
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i do, i don;t have time to write the long explanation i did in my other answer so i will just copy and paste....
I think Bush and his people are crooks man. He and his assumptions have got America in deep crap. I did a report on foreign policy on my final exam. It is so crappy. I mean here out debt is almost $9 billion dollars rising $1.75 million per day and that is our money that Bush is using to rebuild a country that he destroyed! I mean it is said to stop a $9 billion but do you think that will really happen! This is crazy. We as Americans don't even get a say in foreign policy. Bush assumption Iraq has weapons of mass desturction, goes in there takes out there leader, forces a demorcacy and is trying to rebuild it? There were no weapons! We need to stop budding into other business that is no ours! With all that money going down the drain we could use it for USA problems! WOW, think about that, our tax dollars used for us! What a great idea! There are so many issues, and it is like we are second compared to the rest of the world. Whenever there is a problem internationally we are the first to bud in and send of troops, when the UN should be handing that. We should just give them our budget so our troops will not be there and be killed for no reason. I think everyone who votes for bush is a stupid uniformed hillbilly! I have so much stuff to say bout this C student president that it kills me! Why? Why is he the leader of the free world. I mean if someone forced communism on us do you think we would let it happen? Helllll no, so why do we do it on other countries? We are considered the worlds hyperpower because of our great influence on develpoing ocuntires about out foreing policys. And i think our economy is slowly but surely crumblling as a nation, and what is Bush gonna do about this. He has to ask his DICK!!.......dick chenney that is. Do you agree?
2006-09-02 15:31:36
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't think he is a criminal, I don't even blame him for anything that has gone on under his administration, I can say that as a liberal because the people to blame is the senate and the house of represtntatives. What is their job, to keep the presiden from abusing his authority. They have failed miserably. This ultimately fall back on the people that keep electing these morons into their position. The only way you can stop this is elect new state representation.
2006-09-02 16:51:09
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answered by King Midas 6
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I think that the radical Muslims of the world and they are millions, stop dreaming of converting the world to Islam, whether this is commanded by Allah or not. They should stop dreaming that Israel should be wiped off the map; they should stop sending their children to blow themselves up and kill the so called unbelievers with the silly promise that they'll go to paradise and be given seventy-two virgins to rejoice with, in brief, they should stop their Koranic hatred against the Jews, Christians and all non-Muslims.
I am not fond of wars as I am not fond of terrorism, and the blowing-up of subways, airplanes and Twin Towers. It is an endless subject that can be only solved by erasing the hatred for non-Muslims from the famous Koran.
2006-09-02 15:49:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Criminal Record Search Database : http://www.SearchVerifyInfos.com/Support
2015-09-24 01:23:55
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answered by Saul 1
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If you believe any thing in that piece of trash 9/11 then you are an even dumber person than Michael Moore. If you want to indict a president lets start with Clinton. We know he lied, he cheated, he dodged the draft, he let all his good buddies go. That was one man I was glad to see go.
2006-09-02 15:46:53
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answered by Anonymous
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If you are relying on information from that fat f#ck Michael Moore then you are just another member of the misinformed herd of sheep that is the youth of America. What gives Mr. Moore the credentials to judge a sitting US President? Obviously he is biased. He is part of the corps of Hollywood leftists (aka Democrats) that are attempting to brainwash America and the world.
Not that I think Mr. Bush is perfect. Ever notice that almost every Senator or President is rich? Prior to coming to office? It takes money to get power. Power corrupts. Ever wonder where the Clinton's got their $$$ prior to coming to the White House? How about that stain on Monica's dress. Ever hear of White Water?
It is funny that Democrats ALWAYS whine louder and harder when one of their own isn't out robbing and plundering.
2006-09-02 15:43:33
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answered by submariner662 4
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I wouldn't classify Pres. Bush as a criminal. Incompetent, stubborn and out of touch with the American people, perhaps, but not criminal. Many criminals are quite intelligent, especially the "White Collar' criminals. I'm not sure he's smart enough to be a criminal!!! What say you?
2006-09-02 15:35:53
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answered by conetoe 3
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Information? You call "Fahrenheit 9/11 information? It's Michael Moore ultra left wing propaganda, plain and simple. It's been proven that Moore distorted facts for his "movie." If these are the things that are helping you conclude that Bush is a criminal, then you are mislead and mistaken.
2006-09-02 15:32:42
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answered by Anonymous
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