The Good in President Bush, I would like to know... Options

[Alpha240]

I've read many debates regarding George Bush and John Kerry. Unlike Bush, Kerry never had a chance to prove himself as a president and show the American people how he could help this country and its people. George Bush had almost 4 years now to make a difference, and in my opinion any difference he made was make our country worse than it was before. I just don't understand why people like Bush. I really don't. I've heard unrational reasons, such as "He is a Christian" and "He is a strong leader", but I have not heard any REAL reasons on why Bush is a good person/president. So pleeease... someone tell me why so many people out there like Bush.

I would like non war related reasons, because i am against the war and therefore I will disagree with almost any reason given regarding the war.
For example: if you say you like Bush because he caught Saddam Hussein, my reply would be that he had no probable cause to go after Hussein. Even if he saw him as a threat, Bush had no proof or real intelligence to have reasons to bomb Suddam's country and capture him. I also don't believe in pre-emptive attacks. I think they are extremely hypocritical and destructive.

So if anyone has any input on how Bush improved our economy, environment, societal problems, scientific and technological advances, or anything along those lines please let me know.

[ComradeRed]

BY GIVING US NO JOBS!!! NO JOBS = NO MONEY!!!!! jsut have to say i love urr sig and avatar kathleen

The government's role isn't to give jobs, that's the job of the companies.

As for surpluses and deficits, the reason we have a deficit now is because of SPENDING HIKES, not tax cuts. Bush has raised spending more than any other President since FDR. The tax cuts alone would've been fine (After all, the extra $236 billion is OUR money, isn't it?)

After Bush gets out of the White House, we should pass a Balanced Budget Amendment requiring the budget be balanced by cutting spending and not raising taxes. Now, for once, liberals are right: We should learn from Third World Countries. Whenever a third world country changes its government, what's the first thing it does (after executing the leaders of the previous government)? That's right, it defaults on its national debt! We ought to do that too. After all, most government expenditures are lost due to corruption, waste, or on just plain unnecessary programs. Why should we be left to foot the bill? Do YOU ever remember voting for a government program? Or giving your approval to be taxed?

Of course, 60% of our deficit is held by Americans, so the government would still have to pay them -- which it could easily do by selling all those abandoned military bases in Utah, or those unconstitutional prisons that house drug offenders (after we decriminalize drugs, that is), and after we abolish the Secret Police, we could give all their weapons to the Arabs as a peace offering. The Federal Government also owns a lot of land out West that the States they should belong to would be glad to pay for. And finally, we'd sell the IRS building for scrap metal. All that should be enough to pay for the domestic debt (60% of the total debt), as well as buying annuities for all the seniors who put their money into the social security system (which would be destroyed promptly thereafter). We'd also end the War on Poverty. Instead of $400 billion we spend each year, we'll just give every poor adult $20,000, enough to make them not poor any more (it's really amazing ... we spend more money on welfare than it would mathematically take to get every poor person out of poverty). And last but certainly not least, we could sell the government's $20 Million Helium Fund http://www.nm.blm.gov/amfo/documents/96artc.pdf. I have a new idea for a tagline: THE US HELIUM FUND: You'd think it was a joke, but it isn't.

Sure, the one downside is we'd never be able to conduct foreign policy ever again, but foreigners are overrated. In fact, preventing the government from doing foreign policy is acutally a good thing -- we'd piss off less people and make them so desperate they are willing to fly planes into the World Trade Center.