Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:05:30 -0500 From: "manuel tavares" <[email protected]>
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-November/185424.html George W. Bush was the most irrational president that the USA have ever had. It is precisely because of his irrationality that he plunge the U.S. into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the exclusion of involvement in domestic and basic economic policies that has plunged the world into this economic meltdown. His policy of affording tax cuts to the very rich has resulted in the trillions of dollars of deficits facing the U.S. That is why he is the most unpopular president in the U.S., his country. Mario responds: President Bush's unpopularity was largely due to the spread of such completely distorted information by much of the left wing media mostly because of their opposition to the liberation of millions of Muslims from Muslim tyrants in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Manuel is repeating here. Was President George Bush "irrational"? Only if one doesn't care about the facts. What about the events that led up to the liberation of Iraq, including the 17 UN resolutions over twelve years asking Iraq to comply with disclosure of his WMDs that he had agreed to, the massacres using WMDs of innocent Iraqi Shia and Kurds, the looting of the oil for food program, the need for no-fly zones patrolled by Americans and Brits to protect Iraqis, etc.? What about Al Qaeda and its attacks on US interests throughout the 90's, or about 9/11, the Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan or the Taliban and their brutality towards women and their harboring of Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, etc. The tax rate cuts that President proposed and supported were for everyone, not just the rich, and caused the economy to recover quickly from the recession that Bush inherited, and INCREASED tax collections by growing the economy in spite of the shocks of 9/11. Since tax collections increased from the tax rate cuts, it stands to reason that the deficits were caused by government spending on social programs and the two wars of liberation. Let's consider the size of the Bush deficits. At the end of Bush's term the deficit was 3.5% of GDP. Obama's policies have increased that to 10% in one year and it is projected to continue to rise if other Obama-supported initiatives pass. The unemployment rate at the end of the Bush term was at a high of 5.8%. After one year of massive spending ostensibly to create jobs, the unemployment rate stands at 10.2%, and is expected to rise. Thus Manuel needs to check his sources and wise up. Manuel wrote: President Clinton was the one who started the campaign to aid victims of Aids in Africa making cheap medicines available to Aids victims through Governments and NGA's and George W.Bush just carried on with the trend perhaps not knowing due to his ignorance. Mario responds: This, too, is completely false, as the following sources show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28605888/from/RSS/#storyContinued http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/01/mr-bush-has-don.html http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17338 Manuel wrote: If George W. Bush had paid enough attention to his domestic Agenda, the world would be a better place economically. Shows you what you get when you elect a Cowboy to the highest office in the land doesn't it. Mario responds: Not true. The financial disaster was started, increased, protected and defended by the Democrats, starting under the Clinton administration. This included President Obama when he was a Senator. Using the Community Reinvestment Act they forced private banks to lend to low income home buyers who were credit risks. The banks then sold the high risk loans to quasi-government institutions like Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae. Because of his support for such risky programs, Senator Obama became the biggest recipient of campaign funds per annum from those at the center of the financial crisis, Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG. President Bush tried to stop the madness but did not have the votes to do so as the timeline in the following video report shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR;=1
