Domestic Policy Accomplishments of George Bush

Discussion in 'Elections' started by BenReilly, Sep 10, 2004.

  1. BenReilly

    BenReilly New Member

    Apr 8, 2002
    Becaues I'm fair and balanced, I'd like to devote a thread to all of W's domestic policy accomplishments:























































    I swear to God I can't come up with anything right now. Come on ditto-heads, help me out here.

    The best I can come up with is the "kethcup is a vegetable" award for classifying McDonald's workers as manufacturing jobs. That takes some real creativity.
     
  2. IntheNet

    IntheNet New Member

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    George W. Bush's Domestic Policy Accomplishments =>

    Economy:Jobs & The Economy
    The President’s pro-growth policies have helped drive the economy and move the recovery forward, putting more money in the pockets of America’s families and laying a foundation for robust growth and job creation now and for years to come. Cutting taxes is a major accomplishment of this Administration. Unemployment is at its lowest rate ever.

    Homeland Security:protecting the American People
    The President’s most important job is to protect and defend the American homeland. Since September 11, 2001, the nation has made tremendous progress achieving this goal. Development of the Department of Homeland Security, the largest federal Agency, is a major accomplishment of this Administration.

    Compassion: Removing Barriers that Separate the Poor from Effective Services
    President Bush has taken bold steps to tear down the barriers that separate the poor from effective programs. He is leading the fight against HIV/AIDS, increasing access to effective drug treatment, mentoring disadvantaged youth and children of prisoners, helping ex-offenders contribute to society and opening or expanding community health centers. This Administration has proposed and developed more HIV/AIDS programs than any other; a major accomplisment of this Administration.

    Health Care: Making Health Care More Accessible and Affordable
    President Bush believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, high-quality health care. Major health care accomplishments of this Administration include the creation of new health savings accounts, creation of a prescription drug benefit under Medicare, strengthened Medicaid and SCHIP programs, and the development of a health insurance tax credit and medical liability reform.

    Education:Bipartisan Education Reform
    President Bush submitted his framework for education reform, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), three days after taking office and secured overwhelming bipartisan support less than a year later. NCLB represents the most significant overhaul of Federal education policy since 1965, when the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed.

    Social Security: Strengthening Social Security
    President Bush believes that we need to explore new ways to ensure that Social Security remains strong and financially secure for America’s children and grandchildren. The President formed a bipartisan Presidential Commission to review Social Security and recommend reforms to put the system on sound financial ground. He has repeatedly stressed the need for modernization of the Social Security System. In addition to saving Social Security, President Bush has proposed solutions to strengthen pension plans and enhance retirement security for all Americans.

    Energy:Securing Our Nation’s Energy Future
    President Bush is committed to America’s energy future. Since his first weeks in office, the passage of a comprehensive and balanced national energy policy has been a top priority for President Bush and his Administration. America will be more prosperous and more secure when it is less dependent on foreign sources of energy. Reliable and affordable energy is critical to America’s economic security, national security, and homeland security.

    BenReilly: let us know what Kerry has done while Senator to enhance Domestic Policy?

    IntheNet
     
  3. bojendyk

    bojendyk New Member

    Jan 4, 2002
    South Loop, Chicago
    Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how
    long precisely --having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular
    to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the
    watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and
    regulating the circulation.

    Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

    Of Man's First disobedience, and the Fruit
    Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
    Brought Death into the world, and all our woe,

    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
    Or close the wall up with our English dead.
    In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility:
    But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
    Then imitate the action of the tiger;
    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
    Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
    Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
    Let pry through the portage of the head
    Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
    As fearfully as doth a galled rock
    O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
    Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
    Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
    Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
    To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
    Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
    Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
    Have in these parts from morn till even fought
    And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
    Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
    That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
    Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
    And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
    Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
    The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
    That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
    For there is none of you so mean and base,
    That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
    I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
    Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
    Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
    Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'


    O I was young and easy in the mercy of his means
    Time held me green and dying
    Though I sang in my chains like the sea

    Seriously, IntheNet, would it kill you to write your own material for once?
     
  4. IntheNet

    IntheNet New Member

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    And you would ask for a link yes? Based on my contribution to this topic and yours (above), which is more informative? Yours or Mine? Which responds to issue (yours or mine)? Which post reply, yours or mine, speaks to the issue? Call me Fish Food indeed!

    IntheNet
     
  5. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
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    :D I was wondering what the point of all that was. Good work!
     
  6. bojendyk

    bojendyk New Member

    Jan 4, 2002
    South Loop, Chicago
    Mine are a lot prettier.
     
  7. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 29, 2000
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    It is customary and expected to cite your source when using the words of others. It is also customary to provide a link to that source (if it's online) so that others might further be enlightened.

    Further, we aren't supposed to quote entire articles or pages. We're supposed to provide, at most, the more pertinent snippets.
     
  8. Chris M.

    Chris M. Member+

    Jan 18, 2002
    Chicago
    Not to mention that ITN should be able to list "accomplishments" of the Bush administration without going somewhere to tell him what to say.

    It's called "original thought" ITN. Try it some time.
     
  9. Yankee_Blue

    Yankee_Blue New Member

    Aug 28, 2001
    New Orleans area
    Moving right along from the forged document scenario...

    Bush's domestic policy is basically summed up in tax cuts and the medicare stuff...

    Kerry's 20 year contribution?




    <crickets chirp>
     
  10. br13

    br13 New Member

    Jun 12, 2003
    Houston, TX
    Liar =>
    Liar - http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/03/new...dex.htm?cnn=yes - The economy has been sluggish during the last four years and even now - after all the tax cuts which have rung up record deficits - it is still sluggish.
    Liar - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/UNRATE.txt - Unemployment is not even CLOSE to the lowest rate ever. http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3079682

    Liar - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5950653/ - However, Bush is effectively using fear to scare people into voting for him.

    Liar - http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/8987756.htm?1c - while talking big on HIV/AIDS, Bush has consistently failed to pony up the money he promised initially, of course, we all know that those millionaire's really needed their tax breaks more than the poor need HIV drugs. :rolleyes:

    Liar - http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-03-30-medicare-usat_x.htm - "Most recently, a Bush administration actuary charged that his higher cost estimates were withheld from Congress during its protracted debate. Those estimates could have influenced the votes of conservative Republicans who objected to the size and breadth of the legislation." The bill forbids Medicare from negotiating lower prescription drug prices. Pharmaceutical companies pushed for that measure so they would not have to face downward pressure on their prices. The bill prevents getting lower priced prescriptions from Canada.

    Liar - http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=44515 - $9.4 billion less in Bush's proposed budget than authorized by NCLB.

    Liar - you said NOTHING that Bush has actually done here. But I can tell you something that he has done: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3636010.stm - what once was a surplus that could have solidified social security, not only for today's seniors, but for the future generations has been recklessly burned through leading to record budget deficits.

    Liar - you said NOTHING that Bush has actually done here. However, I can tell you something he has overseen: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040820/pl_afp/us_oil_vote_bush_040820214307

    Liar
     
  11. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
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    You mean the tax cuts that have failed to spur the economy and have contributed to the largest budget deficit in history?

    You mean the Medicare changes which have caused a 17% jump in premiums?

    Yeah, good stuff.


    And by the way, Senators don't set economic policy.
     
  12. John Galt

    John Galt Member

    Aug 30, 2001
    Atlanta
    I don't know if serious discussion is actually possible in this thread, but to the extent possible, this is what I see as the major domestic initiatives from the Bush administration (off the top of my head)

    Stem-Cell research initiative.

    EGTRRA-- the tax reform and tax cut bill.

    Wage & hour regulation reforms

    Medicare prescription drug bill, coupled with the Health Savings Account Legislation.

    "Healthy Forest" regulations

    Sarbanes-Oxley Act relating to corporate fraud

    Patriot Act

    Homeland Security Act (domestic or foreign? A little of both)

    and as of Monday, expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban

    I'm sure within each regulatory sphere there are a thousand paper cuts that specialists in a particular field could cite as being significant. Notwithstanding those technical issues, in my list above, it is not surprising that I disagreed with just about every one of those, either for substantive reasons (I'm in favor of more stem-cell research for example) or for the way in which the issue was handled (I despise the lie the administration told about how many stem cell lines were available for study). Realistically, in many of those, there is some room for common ground -- we're all opposed to corporate fraud, for example -- but in nearly every case, the methodology used by the administration has just been so disingenuous, one-sided and unopen to discussion, that it is hard to find something I can say "good job" on. Maybe Sarbanes-Oxley? Even that, I think was pretty well gutted by Eugene Scalia's regulations (brother of the Sup. Ct. Justice)
     
  13. IntheNet

    IntheNet New Member

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    br13 => I was trying to post detail on Bush's Domestic Policy Initiatives in response to BenReilly's request... you want to hurl four-letters at me see Garcia or Dante or one of the other Mods as I understand that type of thing if frowned upon... additionally serious debate is impossible if that is how you respond.

    IntheNet
     
  14. yossarian

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    .....from hell's heart...I stab at thee.....for hate's sake....I spit my last breath at thee.....
     
  15. br13

    br13 New Member

    Jun 12, 2003
    Houston, TX
    My friend, I responded with actual links to information that contridicts the 'talking points' that you copied in your posts. The point is that republicons can talk (or write) for hours and hours about Bush the Lessors domestic agenda - but when the rubber hits the road, that's all it is - talk.

    You (or whomever you quoted without citeing) lied when you said unemployment was at its lowest point ever - that Bush has the enconomy surging - that Bush has done anything toward an energy policy - etc. It was not true.

    I should think you would be thanking me for pointing out the error of your ways...:rolleyes:
     
  16. afgrijselijkheid

    Dec 29, 2002
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    policy initiatives? LMAO, how about this response.... ?

    shut your filthy tube sock piegate

    (turns to display jersey number to the re-zebra-can)
     
  17. IntheNet

    IntheNet New Member

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    Why thank you bluedaddy19... I agree with you!

    IntheNet
    Bush/Cheney in 2004
     
  18. afgrijselijkheid

    Dec 29, 2002
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    ok then! i'll

    c
    you
    next
    tuesday
     
  19. Nogra Rover

    Nogra Rover New Member

    Mar 30, 2000
    Bethesda, MD
  20. Chicago1871

    Chicago1871 Member

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    You're kidding right?
     
  21. Roel

    Roel Member

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    Well, if his initiatives are summed up with tax-cuts and medicare, then let's look at the results.

    Federal deficit created by the tax cuts is about 4.0% of the GNP. GNP growth is about 4.0%. A quick look shows that the tax cuts are a break-even activity, not a wealth producing activity. And we are legally liable to pay the debts in the future. Essentially, we need to "grow" our way out of debt. At todays rates, the growth is too slow to make the future payments. This is also a good place to mention that jobs are down by about 1,000,000 over the past 3.5 years.

    Federal spending is out of control. Expansion of federal powers is out of control. Neither party has done anything effective to either set checks and balances in place. I just find it really strange that Republicans are showcasing the Department of Homeland Security as a domestic policy success. Since when do Republicans support creating a massive bureaucracy as a means of improving life in the USA?!?!

    1,400,000 more people have lost their health insurance in the past year, getting the number to over 45,000,000. Increases in health care insurance premiums and perscription medicines also indicates that, although the Bush adminsitration put forward a program, the program is not producing results.

    No Child Left Behind is an unfunded mandate.

    Scorecard, based on results:

    Tax cut: no genuine wealth produced
    Homeland Security: a big bureaucracy
    Medicare reform: Less people insured. Those insured are paying more
    NCLB: The military recruiters get to call my daughter this year.
     
  22. Dan Loney

    Dan Loney BigSoccer Supporter

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    Bush spent four years breathing out carbon dioxide, which plant life needs to survive.
     
  23. afgrijselijkheid

    Dec 29, 2002
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    a true envarnmentlist indeed!
     
  24. Chris M.

    Chris M. Member+

    Jan 18, 2002
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    Since they give him a motorcade, he can't drink and drive. ;)
     
  25. bright

    bright Member

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    But the methane coming out of his ass outpaces the rate of CO2 production.

    - Paul
     

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