AIG pays us back. The forst 50% of tarp saved the economy
His leadership post 9-11 prevented a more serious economic collapse than we had
Saddam, gone
UBL, gone (thanks to water boarding in 2006 as well as Navy seals/CIA)
His tax rate will be in place for 99% of us
Sarbanes Oxley, huge success
His medicare plan was under funded, but also a huge success
was within 163 billion of a balanced budget, 2007
Numerous bi partisan legislation events such as No Child left behind, removing Saddam, Etc...
Budgets through 2008 (BHO signed the 09 budget 3/2009, called the Omnibus bill
Now how is BHO doing?
no jobs
huge debt
Obama care in which some of his own now want out of some
It is not even close people
Without a doubt, there were some positives for the Bush administration, but ignoring some basic facts always makes things look better or worse when looking at them in historical perspective. Something that ideologues fail to realize is that presidential administrations are heavily affected by decisions made by previous administrations. Just to give you a simple one that is really stupid, all too many of you have a field day with "Obamaphones". First of all, none of you have any understanding of why the program was put in place in the first place, by none other than Ronald Reagan, and then expanded under GW Bush, or that Obama has had nothing to do with it other than not seeing it to its end.
Anyway, that is somewhat getting away from the point, but just as Bill Clinton saw a near balanced budget, which was definitely helped by the tax increases supported by GH Bush, so too has Obama been helped, but in a negative manner, by GW Bush's reduction of taxes while refusing to pay for any of the wars he started. Denying this shows that you choose to totally ignore reality.
I voted for GW twice, but in hindsight I can see where he made some serious mistakes, and he gets credit for those mistakes in my book. That doesn't make him a sinister person who was hell bent on destroying America, just as anything Obama is doing doesn't make him hell bent on destroying America.
Most of you on the far right have this idea that we should have just let everything crash and the economy would have straightened itself out through natural market devices. You believe that by cutting as much government spending as possible, that the free market would boom and everything would be great. The fact is that the exact opposite would happen. The truth is that government spending is a very important part of our economy. Without it, our economy would shrink drastically. Government spending also supports many things that we cannot live without in modern society. Now, an argument can be made about what government spends money on and how much it spends at every level, but in the end, we need that government spending. I don't think many of you have any realization as to how many private companies and businesses, including some very big companies rely on federal spending. Without it, many of these companies would go belly up, and the ripple effect would be devastating.
