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Bush is the worst president in modern times and maybe ever. 911 occurred on his watch, he was given a surplus and then created the worst economic situation since the great depression, he couldn't find OBL and didn't seem to care, he invaded a nation that had nothing to do with 911, he found WMDs where there were none, he lost the popular vote in 2000, he like Reagan managed to create a financial situation so bad massive bailouts were required, he addressed none of the critical issues of infrastructure or energy. He is so bad even conservatives and republicans abandoned him - but history must be revised as truth is just too much for most people. Some of his failure is noted below.
"Lots of conservatives turned on George W. Bush by the end of his presidency. But here we see that if Bush didnt exist, the right would have had to invent him. His proud parochialism, his simple-minded and insecure suspicion of intelligence, his swaggering self-righteousnessall of it is the natural expression of contemporary conservatism's outlook on the world." Damon Linker
W. and the damage done - Global warming - Salon.com
"Expected shortfall of gross domestic product below normal growth path in 2009: $900 billion
Decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from its decade high to its value at the close of business, Jan. 7, 2009: 5,394.83, or 38.1 percent
Number of manufacturing jobs lost since 2000: 3.78 million
Increase in number of unemployed workers from 2001 to 2008: 4 million, a jump of 2.7 percent in the unemployment rate
Real median household income according to the 2000 census, adjusted for inflation: $51,804
Real median household income as of August 2007: $50,233
Of course, the government didn't sit idly by while our financial future was disappearing down the drain. Instead, the feds have pumped in hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, hoping to juice lending and public spending.
Cost of finance industry bailout: $350 billion, with another $350 pending congressional approval
Cost of auto industry bailout: $17.4 billion, so far
And even though there's widespread agreement among economists that the government needs to be spending a large sum of money on an economic stimulus package, it still won't look pretty on the public balance sheet.
National debt: $10.6 trillion
Amount of that debt owned by China: At least $800 billion."
The Raw Story
The auto bailout is Obama's, and its allot more than 17 billion
Debt? your comparing GWB to anyone with debt?
What about your hero?
The Bush Deficit, the Clinton Surplus and TARP by Gregory Hilton | The DC World Affairs Blog
2009 is Obama's
or do you blame Bush for Obama being elected?
and what about congress?
We were fine until the Dems took over congress
are you still out there?