Author Topic: What Bush Did Right (Read 2919 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #45 on:** August 08, 2005, 08:29:13 AM »

Funked hit on the important ones for me. Bout better than I could expect given the way things were going before.

I am pleased.

Plus... MT's wife doesn't like him so he's gotta be doing good things for me.

lazs

Ripsnort · « **Reply #46 on:** August 08, 2005, 08:38:49 AM »

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Originally posted by Raider179
yeah that was exactly what I didn't want. I wanted to see what people actually "Thought" instead of what is fed to them. oh well..

Raider, we both quoted a source that we agreed with all of the things he has done in office. What am I suppose to do, make crap up? . I've watched him perform his job, agreed with what he has done. Again, that is what my "thought" is. It wasn't fed to me, I read about it, and its nice for a website to compile everything he has done in the first 4 years. Its good for the country, good for you and I.

Now, if you can't handle his successfulness, then start a new post. You asked what Bush did right, we responded.

Its funny, how you, Midnight choose to attack the poster, but not the issues listed. Things that make a psychologist go "Hmmmmm"....

FiLtH · « **Reply #47 on:** August 08, 2005, 08:46:14 AM »

Wheres the 4 pages of what he's done wrong? Anyone?

Thanks for posting Steve, I forgetten over the years, alot of that stuff.

slimm50 · « **Reply #48 on:** August 08, 2005, 08:46:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Raider179
yeah that was exactly what I didn't want. I wanted to see what people actually "Thought" instead of what is fed to them. oh well..

Oh, c'mon Raider. I see this thread as an attempt to cut through the weekly Bush-bashing rhetoric so as to give the man his due. The poster even admitted to being a regular contibuter to the former. We all know what the nay-sayers think...no secret there. This thread in no way signifies a mind-numbed robot mentality.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #49 on:** August 08, 2005, 08:48:56 AM »

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Originally posted by slimm50
Oh, c'mon Raider. I see this thread as an attempt to cut through the weekly Bush-bashing rhetoric so as to give the man his due. The poster even admitted to being a regular contibuter to the former. We all know what the nay-sayers think...no secret there. This thread in no way signifies a mind-numbed robot mentality.

I failed to see where he said "I wanted to see what people
actually "Thought" instead of what is fed to them. "
Did you see that text in his topic or post?

midnight Target · « **Reply #50 on:** August 08, 2005, 12:32:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Here is my list of just a few things (wink wink) that he has done in office that I support 100%.

Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.

For every $100 you got back in tax cuts, $40 was borrowed from foreigners, $20 was borrowed from Americans, and $40 was taken from Social Security.

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Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.

OK, then we need to credit Clinton with the 90's boom.. deal?

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Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.

"The Occupation Safety and Health Administration had estimated that the new rules would have generated benefits of $9.1 billion a year for each of its first 10 years, and would have prevented 460,000 musculoskelatal disorders a year. It said employers pay $15 billion to $18 billion a year in workers' compensation costs as a result of such disorders. " - Who exactly is Bush looking out for here?

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Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.

Translation... His buddies gat caught with their hand in the cookie jar. So he decided to get behind buying a lid.

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Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.

Thus providing even more windfall profits to the richest Americans.

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Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.

No such thing exists. The Democrats offered a 10 million dollar cap on the estate tax, they Reps turned it down. Now who again is Bush protecting here?

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Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.

Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.

From the Horses a.. er Mouth "We will provide tax incentives to encourage employers to provide such equipment. And we will protect home offices from needless OSHA regulations. "

LOL

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Signed the No Child Left Behind Act

Then failed to fund it.

enough?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #51 on:** August 08, 2005, 12:42:13 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
For every $100 you got back in tax cuts, $40 was borrowed from foreigners, $20 was borrowed from Americans, and $40 was taken from Social Security.

BS. Source please (please something other than the DNC website)

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"The Occupation Safety and Health Administration had estimated that the new rules would have generated benefits of $9.1 billion a year for each of its first 10 years, and would have prevented 460,000 musculoskelatal disorders a year. It said employers pay $15 billion to $18 billion a year in workers' compensation costs as a result of such disorders. " - Who exactly is Bush looking out for here?

Sounds like welfare to me!

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Translation... His buddies gat caught with their hand in the cookie jar. So he decided to get behind buying a lid.

Could be, but you have to admit it was a good law.

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Thus providing even more windfall profits to the richest Americans.

Sure, why not? They pay 95% of the taxes.

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No such thing exists. The Democrats offered a 10 million dollar cap on the estate tax, they Reps turned it down. Now who again is Bush protecting here?

Excuse me? http://invest-faq.com/articles/tax-estate-gift.html

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From the Horses a.. er Mouth "We will provide tax incentives to encourage employers to provide such equipment. And we will protect home offices from needless OSHA regulations. "

My employer offers such equipment for me. Does yours? Oh thats right, you're not a virtual employee.

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Then failed to fund it.

No, it was over-funded as a raw bill. They gave the amount they found necessary to fund it. The teachers unions are the ones screaming thats its underfunded. Now do the math, are the teachers unions pro-dem or pro-repub?

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enough? [/B]

Enough embellishment from you? Yes.

slimm50 · « **Reply #52 on:** August 08, 2005, 01:25:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I failed to see where he said "I wanted to see what people
actually "Thought" instead of what is fed to them. "
Did you see that text in his topic or post?

Rip, I misspoke. Instead of saying "This thread in no way signifies...", I should have said "Rip's post in no way signifies a mind-numbed..." Woulda made more sense, I think?

SaburoS · « **Reply #53 on:** August 08, 2005, 01:54:21 PM »

FWIW,
It shouldn't matter if some cut and paste their answers as long as that is what they agree with. After all it is now what they believe.

Raider179 · « **Reply #54 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:05:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Raider, we both quoted a source that we agreed with all of the things he has done in office. What am I suppose to do, make crap up? . I've watched him perform his job, agreed with what he has done. Again, that is what my "thought" is. It wasn't fed to me, I read about it, and its nice for a website to compile everything he has done in the first 4 years. Its good for the country, good for you and I.

Now, if you can't handle his successfulness, then start a new post. You asked what Bush did right, we responded.

Its funny, how you, Midnight choose to attack the poster, but not the issues listed. Things that make a psychologist go "Hmmmmm"....

So you are gonna tell me that you not only understand each and everyone of those issues but agree with all of them?

What are these then without google please?

Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy...

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.

What incentives did he give them?

Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.

Plz explain I have no idea what this is...Home businesses seemed fine to me while Clinton was in office.

Here is one that is just not true.

Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to to become teachers.

Troops to teachers budget

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget06/06action.pdf

2004 - $14,912 2005- $14,793 2006 Presidential Request - $14,793

Raider179 · « **Reply #55 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:10:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Raider, we both quoted a source that we agreed with all of the things he has done in office. What am I suppose to do, make crap up?

Perhaps you could show me where you or he "quoted a source". Most certainly you did not quote anything. You did however steal someone else's work and present it as your own without even acknowledging it's someone else's.

Raider179 · « **Reply #56 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:17:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I failed to see where he said "I wanted to see what people
actually "Thought" instead of what is fed to them. "
Did you see that text in his topic or post?

Nope you didnt, because I didnt see 4 pages of cut and paste coming or I would have asked. Thought it wouldnt need to be said but thats what I get for thinking. Maybe even a paragraph or two might not have been such a big deal, but 4 pages, mostly loaded with junk about honor and integrity. 1 line would have been suffiecient for about 2 pages of that stuff.

midnight Target · « **Reply #57 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:20:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Enough embellishment from you? Yes.

You make this too easy, but I gotta... In order to lose the "family farm" to taxes you gotta be really stupid. In fact NO ONE has ever lost a family farm to the estate tax. From the web site that YOU provided.

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.............the unified credit amount for tax year 2004 is $1,500,000. But given the annual gift tax exclusion amount of $11,000 (increased in 2002 from 10,000 in prior years), the total amount that a person can effectively transfer to another individual without triggering taxes is much larger.

Here is what you Rip & Pasted... "Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. "

Now the Estate tax has absolutely NO affect on little family farms and ranches. It has a huge affect on the Walton family. Do ya really think the best Bush has done is protect the billionaires from those pesky taxes?

Clifra Jones · « **Reply #58 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:32:02 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Steve Wrote -

Ripsnort wrote -

It's obvious that the thing Bush has done most right of all is indoctrinate the faithful and provide cut and paste opportunities.

Not to hijack Radiers threat, but I have to respond to this.

Conservatives do not use fear as a political tool. That is the common weapon of the Leftist/Liberals.

I.E.

Republicans will:

Take away your Social Security.
Burn Black Churches.
Reinstitute segragation.
Invade your bedroom.
Take away your civil rights.

That's a short example, I really don't have time to list more but I could if I wanted to.

We won't even talk about how the Left has taken character assasination to an art form.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #59 on:** August 08, 2005, 04:40:36 PM »

Umm how about Who Cares? Estate taxes are just a BS way for the feds to get their hands into the property tax cookie jar anyway. Who cares if it only benefits rich people if they do away with it or amend it? If it wasnt hurting the little guy to start with, then IT DOESNT MATTER either way does it? Geeze you guys are almost as bad as the numb-from-the-neck-up zombies on TV and radio. BOTH sides will spin it to sound good or bad, just to suit their own agenda. Neither side really gives a darn about it. Somebody tries to start a positive thread for once and it devolves into a slapping and scratching contest.