America For Purchase

George Bush, the 43^rd President of the United States was inaugurated January 20, 2001 and his term will expire January 20, 2009.President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years.  His approval rating had dramatically dropped from 90% just after 9/11, to 28% in April of 2008. (See http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm)

Mr. Bush’s governmental spending grew by 33% just during his first term in office.  The Republican Congress presiding over the 1^st 6 years of the Bush Whitehouse assisted Mr. Bush in bloating the economy.  In 1995 Republicans promised to eliminate spending on over 100 of the largest Governmental programs but under Mr. Bush, spending on these programs have actually grown by 27%.

Instead of reducing “big government’ as one Mr. Bush’s campaign promises, he has actually grown the government by a whopping 40%!  Mr. Bush’s increases have mostly gone to the privatization of government and corporate welfare (big oil company tax breaks and tax break for the wealthy, etc.) 

It is ludicrous Mr. Bush now in 2008, demands congress hold the line on spending, especially since no president has spent so much and more of American’s tax dollars, and gotten so little for it.

I remember when President Johnson was saddled as being a ‘big-spending liberal’, but compared to Mr. Bush, LBJ was much more fiscally responsible.  Mr. Bush’s federal spending has grown by more than 5.3% a year, much higher than LBJ and twice the rate of President Jimmy Carter and President Clinton.

 The final nondefense budgets under Clinton were a combined $57 billion smaller than what he proposed from 1996 to 2001.  Under Bush, Congress passed budgets that spent a total of $91 billion more than the president requested for domestic programs. Bush signed every one of those bills during his first term.  How interesting since Mr. Bush said “Too much government spending will end prosperity.” (Nov 2000)

Bush Tax Cuts – was a $1.35 trillion dollar cut in taxes in 2001, which mostly benefited the wealthiest Americas, about 3% of the population!   (See previous posting this site)

In October 2001, Americans were supportive when Mr. Bush invaded Afghanistan (rightfully so) where the Taliban and Osama bin Laden were housing Al-Qaeda and terrorists.  In March 2003 Mr. Bush began his assertion (based on false and doctored up intelligence) that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and began his personal war, not authorized by Congress.   On May 1, 2003, Mr. Bush gave his ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, claiming the US and its allies had won the ‘war’.  After realizing the Iraq war was not actually ‘won’ Mr. Bush continued providing American soldiers, American tax payer money to this failed cause.  He also engaged in nation building, after once claiming in his campaign for President, he did not ‘believe’ in nation building.  Mr. Bush then moved his focus from Afghanistan, focusing solely on Iraq.  Under Saddam Hussein, Al-Qaeda was non-existent in Iraq, today they have over-run this nation.  Mr. Bush’s undeclared by Congress was has cost American taxpayers more the $521 TRILLION DOLLARs and more than 4,000 AMERICAN LIVES, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives of the Iraqis people, and thousands of American wounded soldiers.  And this is the war that John McCain wants to continue for the next 100 years!

What do our allies say about Mr. Bush who single-handedly ruined America’s credibility in the world?

Well Mr. Bush has been and continues to be criticized by foreign countries and governments, at great cost to Americans and what its respected leadership position was. It’s laughable that Bush was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2002 & 2004) but he did not receive the award – DUH

An Associated Press poll found the majority of people in Canada, Mexico and five European countries have an unfavorable view of the role that President Bush plays in world affairs/(See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/04/world/main604135.shtml)

And how favorable do Americans see the Government under Mr. Bush? 

For example, in November 2005, President Bush told reporter in Panama: “We do not torture and therefore we’re working with Congress to make sure that as we go forward, we make it more possible to do our job.”  A year later, in September 2006, Bush stated to Katie Couric in an interview: “I’ve said to the people that we don’t torture, and we don’t.” and in October of 2007 Mr. Bush again stated: “This government does not torture people.”

So, Bush has reminded us three times in as many years that the U.S. doesn’t torture.

How ironic because as recently as March 8, 2008, Mr. Bush vetoed a bill (H.R.2082) that would have expanded Congress’s oversight over the intelligence community and would have banned the use of waterboarding as well as other harsh forms of torture.  Mr. Bush stated “the ‘bill’ would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror.  Coincidentally, the US Army field manual PROHIBITs the use of waterboarding explaining this form of torture elicits unreliable information.

John McCain Senator from Arizona stated in 2005 that he was a torture victim during the Vietnam War and that the water board technique is a “very exquisite torture” that should be outlawed. Who knows where he stands on this issue today.  Water boarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in Vietnam 40 years ago Earlier in 1901 and the United States had taken a similar stand against water boarding during the Spanish-American War when an Army major was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor for water boarding an insurgent in the Philippines.

American simply CANNOT afford another Bush term as Mr. McCain offers.  Americans today are paying record-breaking prices for gas, food, medical care, prescription drugs and more.  Many Americans have to choose between buying food and buying medicine and America’s middle and lower class are being impacted all the more.  Many Americans also realize that living beyond our means, robbing the Social Security Fund, running up Trillions of Dollars in debt to foreign governments is NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA.

 Please vote November 4, 2008 and let’s give America back to Americans!

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