THE LEGEND OF GEORGE BUSH II - "THE CONQUERER"
If you set out to find the real winner of the Alfred E. Neuman "What Me Worry" awards George Bush II would be the classic winner of the century. His record is outstanding possibly doing more harm to this nation than any other President.
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
He attacked, invaded and destroyed two countries
in the name of democracy and freedom while cutting healthcare benefits for war
veterans.
He took a government surplus, bankrupted the treasury and created the biggest annual deficit in history.
He is the record holder for private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period, the all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. He also set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
He is the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record and took vacation more days than any other President. He also appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any President in US history and had more people hired who went on to get indicted while in office.
He holds the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in US history and put over 2 million Americans out of work while cutting unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans,
Under Bush more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history while holding the least amount of press conferences to explain why. He presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
On his watch we had the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. He removed more checks and balances, lowered the amount of congressional oversight, more so than any presidential administration in US history.
He also refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. He is the all-time US and world record holder for most corporate campaign donations while spending more money on polls and focus groups than any president.
Single handedly made the US the most resented country in the world and is the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
He allowed a number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. Like Halliburton.
He never did get Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive" and later on said it wasn't important. He removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other President in US history.
Other than that he's really a nice guy...
SHAFTA from NAFTA How?
We are slowly being bled to death by the protectionism given to our trading partners. What tariffs, the Chinese sub product, or partial product diverts to Mexico first, where it is then assembled, and comes into the country on the George W. Bush Highway.
The superhighway he promoted while in office would be an eight lane highway stretching from Mexico to Canada. The AFL-CIO drivers stopped that one. Like we don't need Mexican trucks with no safety gear standards operating on our roads and lets face it, it would be renamed later on the "Cartel Causeway" due to the amount of drugs being carried. They had no trouble finding enough baseball bats and Springfield's to stop that brain-fart from happening.
The AMERICAN PEOPLE have been sold out by corporate greed, bad treaties that got by the check-stop oversight committees, the good old boys greed, and willing Congressmen and Senators, our most adoring greedy group and soon NAFTA became SHAFTA.
That's SHAFTA! SH*T HANDED to AMERICANS by the FREE TRADE AGREEMENT.
HOW IT CAME ABOUT
STEP ONE - President and Cigar Aficionado
William Jefferson Clinton opened the door, in a horrific one-sided deal to a
treaty called NAFTA. One of the worst treaties we agreed to. The expression the devil is in the details goes
a long way here. Clinton opened the door and left the keys and the padlock on
the table.
STEP TWO - President George W. Bush found the keys, enlarged the door to a railroad tunnel size, and sent the Chinese Orient Express through it, and maybe thats why we borrow much of our money from China for the war. George had to pay for the war and not make it part of our economy. We owe the Chinese a lot. They are killing us economically and with red lead paint.
Eight years of war run up the tabs very quickly. And of course it's money we can't talk about as the former President made sure most of it is covered under the various need to know acts.
Interested Americans do need to know...it’s over a trillion, thats with a “T”. It finally made the papers. Don't blame President OBAMA for this one. The reasons for the Iraq-Afghan war are still cloudy to this day. And many would prefer keeping it this way. "The truth hurts" the Judge used to say, "Especially when it's tied to a rope around your neck".
CNN MONEY- NEW YORK (CNN Money.com)
As the Iraq/Afghanistan/ Yemen/ Pakistan war continues with no clear end in sight, the cost to taxpayers may balloon to $2.7 trillion by the time the conflict comes to an end, according to Congressional testimony.
We owe China about another trillion (what we are worth on paper and gas futures) for a war. That’s the real legacy. That’s what funded part of this mess, which did not have to be disclosed under Bush disclosure rules, endorsed by Cheney and audited by Carl Rove. That’s where part of the cover-up is. It was then President George Bush who told us everything was wonderful till a week before the crash. How do you lose trillions in a week?
His administration never was transparent and many of the things that occurred during that administration will come to the surface. And they are not pretty. When I hear a Congressman lamenting about how this is our kids future... hold on, this damage was already done, just in the works growing for the past eight years and you Mr. Congressman and Senator might have been or were part of it.
The truth is about the cash war. It is a war of money spent, money borrowed that John Q. Public did not know about. It will have to be paid back somehow. Add the billions paid to the mercenaries amidst other costs yet to surface and you’ll see the real mess the last administration put us in.
LIFE HAS SIMPLE RULES
Next year some will die;
some will starve; some will be beaten down and enslaved and some will pick up a
weapon and become the tool of destruction in revenge or use that weapon in a
fight for independence. That’s reality. It's based on strength.
Economics works the same way it’s the strong that control. It’s not that we have weakened. It’s a world market that is bigger and stronger and accelerating. We have competition now. When "Bush the First" spoke of the New World Order, many of the less informed individuals envisioned a bunch of goose-stepping neocons ruling the world like the "Third or Fourth Reich". Was it mis-interpretation or poor communication?
Had they read the papers on the New World Order? It was about financial shifts in trade and the strength of countries of the world. A balance of power and fair-trading of the resources, they were told, someone was dreaming. Nevertheless instead of a chicken in every pot there was an AR-15 in every closet.
So is world leadership not by force, but by economics? Possibly but while we are engaged in a war and nation building, which will stretch into decades, and complete breaking of our financial system, the world is changing. The other players are picking up a lot of our slack, going through a quiet revolution, and we are not the only ones in contention for world leadership. We are fiddling, burning down Rome, and texting while the world is moving on.