Can someone tell me about Bush?

Question

Can someone please help me tell my son how many blunders Bush has made over the last six years and a few of what they are like Katrina 911 etc. I am trying to explain to him why this country is in bad shape.Help

Answer 1

Consider that over half of our presidents came from families ranking amongst the wealthiest 3% of Americans while at least a dozen sprang from the loins of elitists in the top 1%.

In 2005, 143 of 435 US Representatives and one in three Senators were millionaires.

Statistics from 2002 indicate that eight of the fifteen wealthiest individuals in America had acquired their fortunes through inheritance. Five of these eight were Waltons. The other three were progeny of the founder of the Mars Candy empire. Three of the top fifteen derived their fortunes from the same company, Microsoft. No concentration of wealth in the hands of a few there, is there?

Reports from 2002 also indicate that Bill Gates had acquired as much wealth as the bottom 40% of US households. And the Walton clan possessed 771,287 times the wealth of the average US household. Here is to the land of equal opportunity!

In 2004, the United States had 374 billionaires and 7.5 million millionaires (about 2% of the population). The wealthiest Americans possessed $11 trillion in assets. Meanwhile 13% of Americans lived below poverty level. What was that Horatio Alger myth again?

Yes, the bourgeoisie is thriving and dominating in the United States. We are indeed experiencing the dawn of the Second Gilded Age.

Representing a particularly searing indictment of America's Capitalist constitutional republic are the 500,000 US military veterans who experience homelessness each year. Conscripted or manipulated by propaganda to fight in wars of imperial aggression (like Vietnam), homeless veterans were used by the elites and cast aside like yesterday's garbage. The Veterans Administration only provides housing for veterans who are chronically ill, has severely neglected the needs of those with mental illness, and cut most Vietnam War Veterans adrift with no job training. Risk your life to expand the American Empire and you get to spend the rest of your days eating out of trash dumpsters.

Many choose homelessness, at least temporarily, because they are unable to make a living wage in America's "booming" economy or find themselves completely unemployed. Offshoring of American jobs, stagnant wages, the soaring cost of housing, and the agonizing loss of industrial sector jobs with healthy wages are leaving many Americans vulnerable to financial disaster. Overwhelmed by bills and crippled by insufficient income, some Americans are forced to choose amongst basic necessities. Naturally housing goes before food and clothing, leaving people living on the street, or if they are lucky, in their cars.

Natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina can add dramatically to the number of homeless. At least 50,000 Katrina victims remain homeless. New Orleans is a particularly instructive case because it clearly demonstrates the Capitalist elites' obsession with property rights and their callous disregard for humanity. Our Constitution charges the federal government with promoting the general welfare. Yet the Bush Regime had cut funding for the levees despite warnings of the impending disaster dating back to 2001, provided a slow and anemic relief effort by utilizing a FEMA entity which they had gutted, and patrolled the streets with heavily armed Blackwater contractors to secure property and assets.

Answer 2

Bush has once again cut and under-funded schools in his "No Child Left Behind" rhetoric,
He has drastically cut funding for cancer research - that Bill Clinton had boosted granting additional funding. Now that some good news has come along about the newer cancer meds/treatments on the market - Bush wants to and has been taking credit for something he hurt and not helped. (That by the way is from Phd's who say this publicly, and not the researchers)
Tell him that Bush emboldens and embraces the flood of illegal aliens crossing the borders at the cost of the American taxpayer dollars. At the cost of changing the English language to accommodate and encourage the illegals not to learn it. Not to read, write, speak or understand it. That this flood of illegals has caused a financial hardship on the American doctors, and Hospitals, law enforcement, Jobs that Americans do want, and make a living at for themselves and their family.
Tell him that Bush had virtually handed over America to potential terrorists companies in Customs - While claiming that Homeland security was on the job. No proper paperwork/documents on these employees. No Id's or badges to indicate that they needed to be or were allowed to be on the premises, let alone that these employees even work for the company. That when it was brought to his attention several times - he still didn't listen or do anything until the news media made it public knowledge to the American peoples.
That while Bush in front of the camera signs to enact a bill or law - then goes behind closed doors to secretly amend it to suit him and his regime.
That if Bush had nothing to hide - he would allow his presidential record become public in 10 years after leaving office and not when or if his daughters allow it.

Answer 3

Just tell the little fella that Bush was a limitied moron who tried to be a better man than his father. He tried and it is tough. It is real tough.

George is struggling to rise above his idiot background,
but it is hard.

It's real hard. Your son will probably go to war and not have the health care he needs to heal him when his legs are blown off or he has lost his mnd in the next war. Tell him to thank George. Bushie is trying...

Answer 4

You should tell your son the truth... That he is blessed to live in the greatest county and society the world has seen. One man cannot cause as many problems as we may have. One man cannot fix them. In fact, during Bush's presidency we have seen some of the lowest unemployment rates in 100 years, the stock market has broke records, and our generation has been reminded that freedom is not free.

Pack your kid up and take him to Another country and try to raise him there. Try paying 51% income tax like in Denmark and raise a family. If he gets very sick, too bad, he will have to apply for medical care like in Canada. And in Saudi Arabia, if he does not kneel down and pray to Allahat the prescribed times, he could be tried and executed.

Katrina was a disaster because New Orleans did not plan ahead. Do you see the same problems arise when an earthquake in California displaces thousands? Did Bill Clinton have an emergency plan for in case New Orleans flooded?

Explain to him why he is lucky to live here. Explain to him that

Answer 5

Katrina was a blunder at the local level. 9/11 was inherited from years of Clinton's do nothing administration. I am very happy with the state of our country.

Answer 6

The only mistake Pres Bush is guilty of is not having his scum liberal critics arrested and put to death. He was right about Saddam's involvement with 9/11 and possessing WMD- If you are telling your son Pres Bush is a bad man- then you should face arrest. There was just an attack in Iraq with chlorine gas- a WMD- which further proves Pres bush correct. He is guilded by the hand of Jesus, and will be judged one of the greatest presidents in history. He did everything he could to help out after Katrina, but the Democrats blocked him at every turn.
9/11 happened because of Bill Clinton's inaction. In the 1990s, the Republicans wanted to get Osama bin Laden, but Clinton blocked thier efforts, and some say he gave Osama protection.

Answer 7

If you want to give your kid some rotten fish, go that route.

But if you want to teach your kid to fish for himself, why not explain how the country is equally divided on major issues, what they are, and what the reasoning is behind each sides position?

Teach your kid to reason and think, don't just fill his head with political spin. That won't help him, or the country.

And, BTW, I don't think you'd get even 30% of Americans, Republican OR Democrats to agree with your statement that "...the country is in such bad shape".

Lots of folks would take that position issue by issue, but it's hard to debate the health of the economy, the strength of our military, the growth of technology and the resulting improvements in the quality of life in America by world standards! Get a grip before you put your demons on your children. Are you trying to teach them that all your nations ills are due to one man, and that solutions are so simple as replacing one man? Hell, I'd vote for impeachment if things were as simple as replacing one man, and all our nations ills would disappear. But the world is much more complicated than that, friend.

Answer 8

He lied to start a war
He is devaluing the US dollar
He promotes open amnesty for illegals
He doesn't listen to opposing views
He is very inarticulate
He blew a 'slam dunk' success in Afghan
He alienates everyone and country that disagrees
He is selling the deficit to the children
He can't see possible ripple effects of his decisions
He surrounds himself with evildoers
He doesn't obey the law
He is loyal to friends above country

Answer 9

Do you mean aside from launching a needless war on Iraq and declaring it "mission accomplished" a few years ago...

It would be far less time consuming to try to compile a list of things he hasn't screwed up.

Answer 10

in case you had study the healthcare plan he vetoed, you have found out that it lined infants whose mothers and dads ought to have the money for healthcare. He asked the Democrats to narrow the plan to cover in basic terms undesirable infants. They refused, so he vetoed it.