The 7 Habits of the Highly (In)Effective Bush Administration
Over the past 8 years, the Bush Administration has had an unbelievable amount of blunders, missteps, mistakes, bungles, foozles, fumbles, muffs, and even some stumbles. The diagram below depicts some of the worst of these, which ones would you add? Which habits would you change or add?
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AE Repeatedly, publicly talking about "Axis Of Evil" countries. Also calling North Korea's leader a "pygmy", and various similar statements. Apparently with no thought to how any of this would be received abroad, or how it might impact attempted diplomatic relations with those countries. Posted 133 days ago | Tagged As: Assigning Countries to Axis Of Evil
While i totally dislike Bush, let me make a little correction to that chart above... Bush Jr. was not the one who started socializing losses and privitizing profits. That was Reagan and Bush Sr. back in the 80's when taxpayers were hit with over $120b in taxes just to bail out all the savings and loan institutions. Then after that you had President Clinton helping out Citigroup by helping to pass a law which made it so that big banks could actually issue subprime and more risky loans. In essence, the root of this entire crisis comes from Clinton, not Bush. In fact, Clinton was the one who made up the whole 'ownership society' thing which Bush agreed with. So I don't blame him for the housing crisis. I blame the entire financial system for that one (the Fed, mainly for not regulating properly). With that said, I think Bushes biggest problem was alienating other countries and misleading the country into war. Posted 133 days ago
I'm sorry to tell you that it was not former president Clinton "who made up the whole 'ownership society' thing which Bush agreed with." Writings from the Cato Institute, in this case, tell us that "The concept of "ownership society" has been embraced since the time of Aristotle and has found adherents among such thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and most pertinent to today's debate, the American Founders. The central tenet of the ownership society is that we tend to take best care of the things we own, and through which we exercise our liberty; property rights inspire people to act responsibly, to treat one another with dignity and respect, and to create wealth for themselves and others. In today's political debate, the concept of the "ownership society" is most applicable in three areas of public policy: Social Security, health care, and education." It is a strong and philosophically sound concept and most certainly not one that George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush could have conceived. While the elder may be more intelligent than the son, together they have the I.Q. of a dog tick. As to adding or deleting anything on the geodesic wheel of misfortune, the only exception I might take involves the Bankruptcy law changes. I don't see the harm in expanding upon the laws and making those that can and will be able to re-pay their debts at a later time to do so. They have not taken away the chapter 7 rights of an individual to clean the slate, as it were, under certain circumstances. As to my overall view of George W. Bush I can only say that the weapons of mass destruction lie within him and not in Iraq as we all now know. He blamed his faulty intelligence people for that one which only serves to cement my belief in the trickle down theory. He lied over and over again to get us into a war we fell for because of 9/11 and what do we have to show for it all? One hung dictator and over 33,000 casualties including in excess of 4,000 deaths. And then came Afghanistan...
Supporting Evidence:
From The Cato Institute - Ownership Society: Responsibility, Liberty, Prosperity
(www.cato.org)
Posted 132 days ago | Tagged As: Lies and The Weapons of Mass Destruction
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