I try to have an open mind. I don't agree with all that he does. But, here are a few things he HAS done that many people do not consider when they bash him:
•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.
•Has devoted $110.6 billion in Federal aid towards relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. That is 1/3rd of the total funding thus far for the Iraq war. He 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.
2006-10-15 14:12:08
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answered by Anonymous
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HE DESERVES TO BE TRIED AND CONVICTED OF ALL OF HIS CRIMES. LET ME THINK 999.999 MURDERS, OR MORE I THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE HIM THE CHAIR.
2006-10-15 08:14:29
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answered by Jeremy© ® ™ 5
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