The Bush legacy

[Wulaw Horn]

I'm betting there is some monkeying around with Social Security to get there (the alleged surpluses?)

That's the highest and earliest I've ever seen a surplus claimed.

 

[Tyler Durden]

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[BattleshipTexas]

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[RomaVicta]

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[stabone]

 

[BattleshipTexas]

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[mackfan1]

The Bush legacy:

1) Lied us into an unnecessary war that's cost a trillion dollars and 4,000+ US lives.

2) Inherited budget surpluses and converted them to $400+ billion annual deficits.

3) Allowed 9/11 to happen despite numerous warnings to the effect Al Quaeda was going to hijack airliners & crash them into buildings.

4) Sanctioned torture & abrogated Geneva accords, thus putting US military lives at risk worldwide.

5) Office leaked the name of at least one covert CIA agent to the media for political purposes.

6) Sat in his Crawford ranch house & did nothing while New Orleans drowned.

7) Fired about a half-dozen US Attorneys (all Republicans) for refusing to do Karl Rove's bidding and turn the US Dept. of Justice into a political branch of the RNC.

There are others but that's a pretty good (bad) list to start with.

 

[allweatherHorn]

No reasonable person could look at the last 16 years and conclude that Bill Clinton's legacy is terrible while George Bush's is a great success. Only extreme bias could lead one to that conclusion.

 

[allwhetherHorn]

Mackfan1,

If Bush is so bad, why do you have lie or exaggerate about all your points? Just tell it like it is.

 

[RomaVicta]

He must have been blinded by his hatred.

 

[Summerof79]

Battleship- will you admit that WITHOUT Bush's spending the Clinton Surplus PRIOR to ever submitting his own budget Clinton would have indeed posted a black surplus number?

And that the ONLY reason the number was not put inot your cut and paste was ... George spent the money....

That is the truth of the matter. GWB's unprecedented spending of an inherited surplus before ever submitting a budget of his own was a great political exercise. Gives folks like yourself to honestly say "no surpluses..."

Battleship- do you think there should be an asterick on Clinton's last budget due to GWB's unprecedented move to eliminate the Clinton Surplus? Or do you think that Bush's first Budget should add the additional dollars he spent out of the Clinton Budget? Hell Bush is the only (I can recall)President to find a way to spend money outside of his own budgets!

GWB's legacy will be a sad one.... exactly like his life long decision making.... (save his kicking alcholism with the help fo the Lord and reported,rehab stays that have never been refuted).