Bush's mistakes:
Lowering taxes on the richest people in this country, and giving the middle and lower classes a tax cut that is totally meaningless to them, or shall I say us. A tax reduction of $200 for me isn't going to change my lifestyle one iota. But, the overall cost to society for cutting the taxes, particularly during wartime, is criminal. It means reductions in social programs, the safety net for those who really need it, for the environmental programs, for health care and medicaid and medicare, education, etc, etc, etc. Federal taxes may have gone down, but it has required local governments to raise taxes just to maintain their activities because they are not getting the federal assistance that they otherwise got. We are paying through the nose, anyway. Tax cut, my ass!
Getting rid of Saddam accomplished nothing, but killed thousands and thousands of people, and left many more thousands maimed for life. Given all the other bad guys in this world, Saddam was not the worst. He was just sitting on lots of oil.
Making schools more accountable is a good thing. Running up the deficits to unprecedented levels, thereby not funding the No Child Left Behind program results in pulling more funding away from the schools that cannot meet the accountability standards imposed, thereby making it more impossible to meet the standards. It is a back door way of cutting funding for education.
Putting all of the defense department resources into funding Star Wars, and paying little if any attention to intelligence may have given Bin Laden the opening he needed to perpetrate 9/11.
Pulling out of one treaty after another will take years to overcome. Kyoto Accords so Americans can continue to emit carbon emissions without any checks, Nuclear Nonproliferation so we can develop new "nucular" weapons, UN Population meetings, so the Bushies don't have to deal with family planning, the list goes on and on. It will take years to undo all this.
How about Clear Skies Initiative, which is nothing but allowing power plants to emit more pollutants.
How about Healthy Forest Initiative, which enables the lumber industry to log without restraint, under the guise of clearing dead wood to prevent forest fires.
How about appointing industry CEO's and lobbyists to all the regulatory programs, so that they can overturn those regulations.
Draginol, if you cannot see these mistakes through the haze of the republican rhetoric, then you're blind as a bat, deaf as an I dunno what..........
