Title: This Day In History. Al Gore Loses His 2000 Bid For President. Bush Wins His First Term. Source:
storyballoon URL Source:http://storyballoon.org/videos/this ... dent-bush-wins-his-first-term/ Published:Dec 13, 2009 Author:storyballoon Post Date:2009-12-13 11:37:39 by rotgut Keywords:bushmtrushmore, bushnationalmonument, bushairport, obamacommiecoon Views:509 Comments:42
The rest is history. He is still my President. The current chimp in charge can go eat bananas.
Why don't you like George W. Obama? He's continuing and expanding nearly every single program of your messiah. You are a partisan hypocrite and no different than the Democans who bitched and moaned about William Jefferson Bush, even though William Jefferson Bush grew the size of government more than any president since LBJ. William Jefferson Bush grew the size of government in ways that George H.W. Clinton could only dream of. All with your complete backing comrade.
If you or the Democans had any moral convictions whatsoever, you would be singing the praises of George W. Obama and the Democans would have sang the praises of William Jefferson Bush before him. Instead, you partisan shills show the world your moral degeneracy.
If you think Bablack Obama is the same as Bush, you are truly as delusional as the idiots who think "he is just trying to clean up Bush's mess," with measures such as his health care and environmental proposals.
If you think Bablack Obama is the same as Bush, you are truly as delusional as the idiots who think "he is just trying to clean up Bush's mess," with measures such as his health care and environmental proposals.
LOL! Healthcare. Can you say prescription drugs for geezers? So that's what you have to sink to? Environmental laws and health care? LOL! The only difference between the spending of George W. Obama and William Jefferson Bush is where they are spending their money and expanding the governments reach into our lives.
Once again, you are a partisan shill whose only complaint about big spending and government expansion is that the money isn't being spent where you want it and that he's expanding government in places you don't like. You want the warfare state without the welfare state and George W. Obama is giving you both.
And you equate that with a complete take over of the health care system by the government.
delusional
The only difference between the spending of George W. Obama and William Jefferson Bush is where they are spending their money and expanding the governments reach into our lives.
Bush introduced a few governmental programs, as he pretty much campaigned to do. The HNIC is attempting a complete takeover of private industry by the government. A shame you can't see the difference.
During his eight years in office, President Bush oversaw a large increase in government spending. In fact, President Bush increased government spending more than any of the six presidents preceding him, including LBJ. In his last term in office, President Bush increased discretionary outlays by an estimated 48.6 percent.
During his eight years in office, President Bush spent almost twice as much as his predecessor, President Clinton. Adjusted for inflation, in eight years, President Clinton increased the federal budget by 11 percent. In eight years, President Bush increased it by a whopping 104 percent.
One reason offered for these large budget increases is that entitlement programs are growing rapidly. Although Social Security and Medicare spending growth outpaced most other programs in the mid-1990s, spending growth in discretionary programs has accelerated in the last 15 years, especially during Bush’s two terms. Between FY2002 and FY2009, discretionary spending rose 96 percent.
Some argue that federal spending during the Bush years was so high because security needs drove up the budget. It is true that defense spending increased dramatically since the late-1990s, particularly since 9/11 and the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, nondefense spending increased too. Some also argue that much of the increase in nondefense spending stemmed from increases in homeland security spending. Whether this is true, the overall rapid rise of discretionary spending indicates that, here too, the administration and Congress made no trade-offs in the budget. If the administration and Congress wanted more security spending and wanted to be fiscally responsible, they should have found savings elsewhere in the budget.
President Bush added thousands of new federal subsidy programs during his eight years in office. In 2008, there were 1,816 subsidy programs in the federal budget that spread hundreds of billions of dollars annually to special interest groups such as state governments, businesses, nonprofit groups, and individuals. The number of subsidy programs has grown by 30 percent since 2000 and by 54 percent since 1990.
Some argue that federal spending during the Bush years was so high because security needs drove up the budget. It is true that defense spending increased dramatically since the late-1990s, particularly since 9/11 and the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, nondefense spending increased too. Some also argue that much of the increase in nondefense spending stemmed from increases in homeland security spending. Whether this is true
You're using a source that doesn't even know "whether this is true"?
You're using a source that doesn't even know "whether this is true"?
lol...Your sources would use "weather" intstead of whether.
The paragraph discusses what "some argue" are the reasons for Bush spending like a flaming liberal, expanding big government ad nauseum, and leaving this nation in a stinking pile of debt. I'm sure Bush butt kissers like yourself would defend his spending, expansion of government and huge pile of debt, hence the arguement as to "whether this is true" or not.
Bush was always for no child left behind and prescription drugs and had been campaigning on such things all the way back to Texas. The wild card was 911 and the resulting measures afterward.
Keep thinking your new HNIC is no different if you want. There's no getting through to people with terminal BDS.
Keep thinking your new HNIC is no different if you want. There's no getting through to people with terminal BDS.
Sheesh, I see very little difference between puppet Bush and puppet Obama. Both are whores for Goldman Sachs, the military industrial complex and the medical industrial complex.
You're the only one making a feeble attempt to argue that there's a big difference between the former and latter puppet heading up the executive. Thinking people realize that Bush paved the way for much of what Obama is implementing today.
I have no terminal BDS or OBS--both are puppets. Only idiots like yourself continue to rant and rage as if there's a difference.
Bush never advocated a government takeover of private business. Hussein Obama eagerly embraces it.
Oh really, then what the hell was he advocating when he signed off on $750 billion taxdollars to bail out bankers? This policy MANDATED that banks take the money--how is that not government taking over private business decisions? Was that his big rally cry for the "free market"? For 8 years, he subsidized big business with our taxdollars. This is fascism, which you seem to support as long as Bush is doing it.
What about Bush mandating that the telcoms turn over data on private citizens? Was this not the government taking over aspects of private business? Obama is equally as eager to carry on WHAT BUSH BEGAN.
NCLB was a farce to take power from the states and give it to the feds to control eduation, but you have no problem with that while you cheerlead the complete failure and pissing on the 10th Amendment. An obvious government takeover of state rights, embraced eagerly by Bush and minions like yourself.
Bush centralized power in the executive, so whatever Obama does with this power grab be sure to send a thank you note to GW Bush for making it all possible.
Oh really, then what the hell was he advocating when he signed off on $750 billion taxdollars to bail out bankers
Did he spend his entire effin Presidency advocating such things? That happened in the last months of his Presidency when he was told by Paulson and Bernanke that if he didn't sign off on it, the banking system was in danger of imminent collapse. And while I was never in favor of it, it appears that TARP was a successful endeavor, unlike the HNIC's porkulus.
Did he spend his entire effin Presidency advocating such things?
Yes, which is why we ended up in dire straights just a few months before ol' Bush swaggered back to Texas. It's not as it the entire thing snuck up on this nation, it was a systematic lack of oversight, bribes, and pay backs for getting elected that led this sorry state. One that Obama continues, but Bush and Clinton and Bush Sr. paved the way.
Bush was all for no-bid contracts to pay back his election donors, all for susidizing his election donors, all for taking a stand for failed businesses like Enron. For 8 years, his policy was no accountability and no transparency-- no wonder Obama could so easily walk in and sell this line of BS to the public. Thanks GW.
His ENTIRE EFFING PRESIDENCY was about whoring for bankers, big pharma and the military industrial complex. Not a day passed when Bush didn't bend over for fascism.
Which all "derived" from the FNMA and FMAC issues.
Bovine excrement. You don't even know what a derivative or a credit default swap is, do you? You have no idea how bonds are rated, do you? You have no idea of the money exchanged in the derivative and CDS scams do you? It's estimated at $500 trillion dollars.
Meanwhile, the total of ALL US MORTGAGES, including commercial, in 2006 was $7 trillion.
Tell me how a a $7 trillions in mortgage debt, much of it sound and secure, morphed into a $500 TRILLION dollar problem.
Making loans to poor people consitutes less than the $750 billion used to bail out the bankers. The FNMA and FMAC issues don't even begin to scratch the surface of the $500 trillion dollar problem.
This is all traceable back to the easy housing credit which Bush sent up warning signals about for 7 years.
Are you truly this ignorant, rotgut? No wonder this nation is in this sorry state.
lol.....Bush and his warning signals, must have been smoke signals while he was blowing smoke up the public butt.
Just as I suspected you have no idea what a derivative or CDS or CDO is and no understanding of rating agencies. Yet, you think you can hold your own in a discussion with mere diversion. It isn't working.
Was your Barney Frank comment supposed to get under my skin? That's the best you can do? I almost feel sorry for you, even your insults are stupid.