great things?

Question

can someone please tell me a few good thing that bush has done for this country as a whole? and please you can pass a bill and never fund it so dont put those empty promises down as your answer.
im looking for real life actions that has helped the general population of america

Answer 1

As a teacher and relatively low-paid worker, I got a break on my taxes.

I saw a war my family has been expecting for decades come to pass rather than the continued march of conquest Islam has gotten away with so far (my family having escaped Islam in the 1950s).

I've seen a President stand firm instead of caving to polls.

I've seen "No Child Left Behind," hated by many teachers and administrators, successfully force them to raise standards and education for our children.

I've seen someone finally end the cease-fire with Saddam and see him executed for trying to assassinate our President, nationalize our business interests in Kuwait and attack that ally, pay suicide bombers to kill civilians in Israel (publicly, on T.V.), etc., and actually see Saddam executed, winning the war for Iraq.

Now we see active (not passive, "we'll get you, someday") pursuit of those who attack our troops, our buildings, our people in the War of Terror while still preventing all attacks (so far) here at home).

I'd say that all merits something.

Answer 2

1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.
2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.
3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority.
5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.
7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.
8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.
10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
11. Signed trade promotion authority.
12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.
13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States.
14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.
15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.
16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.
17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child.
18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.
19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans.
20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.
21. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.
22. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.
23. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives.
24. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
25. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.
26. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
27. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.
28. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.
29. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed.
30. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century.
31. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.
32. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year.
33. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia.
34. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
35. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command.
36. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs.
37. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry.

Answer 3

I can't believe you got a " favorable"
answer on that!