It’s time to wake up, Conservatives. Time to face the hard truth of the Bush presidency.
It’s time to wake up, Conservatives. Time to face the hard truth of the Bush presidency. After 4 years of unprecedented prosperity, we need to examine what President Bush hasn’t done for the United States of America. After three and half years without a terrorist attack on American soil, it’s high time we broke down the policies that have left our country a safer, stronger America. Time to cut through the government red tape, and analyze an administration responsible for conducting an effective War on Terror. It’s time to dissect President Bush once and for all; find out if his Presidency is worth another four years. Time we found out just what President Bush hasn’t done.
President Bush has left far too many things undone during his four years in office. He ignored the surplus by signing 2 income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. Instead of leaving taxes high and creating a larger surplus, he reduced taxes for all Americans, spurring economic growth, and keeping the country from depression after the September 11th attacks. In those tax cuts, he reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains, increasing more savings and investment. He eliminated the death tax and increased small business incentives to expand and hire new people. This fueled the economy even more. President Bush should’ve ignored all of this and sent the country spiraling into a deeper recession in order to avoid deficit spending in combating the War on Terror. He didn’t.
He also refused to keep Partial Birth Abortion alive by signing a ban on it. He ignored trends and reversed Clinton’s move to strike President Reagan’s anti-abortion Mexico Policy. He stopped foreign aid that funded abortions, allowing more money to be spent at home. He blatantly supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals, keeping the right to life alive and well in the U.S. Military, during a time when political correctness was overtaking and strangling the military. He also signed an executive order, reversing Clinton’s policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act; another policy he hasn’t done. And there is even more he hasn’t done.
President Bush killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, when he could’ve signed onto it, costing corporations billions of dollars and creating job losses across America. He didn’t allow America to become involved with the International Criminal Court -- a court that could try U.S. Soldiers internationally. Instead of keeping it, he killed Clinton’s carbon dioxide rules that were choking off the electricity surplus to California. He could’ve kept it, but he squashed Clinton’s “ergonomic” rules that OSHA was about to implement -- rules that would have shut down every home business in America. His domestic agenda leaves little to be desired on what he hasn’t done. He started USA Freedom Corps, employing seniors around the United States. He initiated a review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs in an effort to reduce the size of federal government while increasing private sector jobs. He changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger, significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops, and signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens.