Bob
06-19-2008, 07:47 PM
There are many things that Bush has done to hurt the economy: I am capable along with many conservatives of calling him on those things. I just hope that when Obama makes missteps along the way those left of center will have some level of intellectual curiosity and honesty with their secular Messiah.
Things Bush has done to hurt the economy:
1. Going into Iraq. I am torn on what to do now that we are there – but the in terms of dollars and cents – if we wouldn’t have gone we would have more resources to spend elsewhere.
2. Bush has spent more than any pres that I know of – I think his tax breaks have been great to stimulate the economy but if you don’t combine cuts in taxes with cuts in spending then you end up having more debt. Bush is not a conservative when it comes to cutting spending.
3. The solution to "protect us" from the tech bubble has been to create a housing bubble by lowering interest rates -- too much cheap money is devaluing our dolar and adding to the cost of gas and everything else we buy.
4. Bush has not done enough to get more fuel on-line (part of this must be attributed to spending his political capital elsewhere – see Iraq.)
5. He has been near traitorous on how he has dealt with the border. Little enforcement of the law, and an unwillingness to call out those who are stopping the fence from being built. Instead of Iraq – I would have made my argument directly to the American people for immigration reform – how does this fit into the economy? It fits because the “savings” in cheap tomatoes and strawberries are in from drug enforcement costs, prisons, medical costs, deflated American wages and the moral bankruptcy demonstrated by a country that has shown through our actions/inaction that we are ok with human slavery.
Things Bush has done to hurt the economy:
1. Going into Iraq. I am torn on what to do now that we are there – but the in terms of dollars and cents – if we wouldn’t have gone we would have more resources to spend elsewhere.
2. Bush has spent more than any pres that I know of – I think his tax breaks have been great to stimulate the economy but if you don’t combine cuts in taxes with cuts in spending then you end up having more debt. Bush is not a conservative when it comes to cutting spending.
3. The solution to "protect us" from the tech bubble has been to create a housing bubble by lowering interest rates -- too much cheap money is devaluing our dolar and adding to the cost of gas and everything else we buy.
4. Bush has not done enough to get more fuel on-line (part of this must be attributed to spending his political capital elsewhere – see Iraq.)
5. He has been near traitorous on how he has dealt with the border. Little enforcement of the law, and an unwillingness to call out those who are stopping the fence from being built. Instead of Iraq – I would have made my argument directly to the American people for immigration reform – how does this fit into the economy? It fits because the “savings” in cheap tomatoes and strawberries are in from drug enforcement costs, prisons, medical costs, deflated American wages and the moral bankruptcy demonstrated by a country that has shown through our actions/inaction that we are ok with human slavery.