In the
first four years of the Bush administration, there was the theft of the 2000 presidential
election, the recount halted illegally by the state of Florida and the
Republican-led Supreme Court, the refusal of the intelligence reports of an
impending terrorist attack and the eventual 9/11 attack of the twin towers
world trade center, no-bid contracts that led to corporate war profiteering (Halliburton
and Kellogg Brown and Root, also known as KBR), the dismantling of many
business and environmental regulations that led to a mass exodus of jobs and
large businesses to export overseas, the switch from a technology-based
industry to a service industry, massive layoffs and firings of hourly and
salaried professional workers, the Bush tax cuts for the rich and large
businesses, No Child Left Behind that was quite the contrary, the Iraq War and
the lie that led to it, two unpaid wars, secret White House meetings with oil
executives and Cheney, the “Patriot Act”, the restriction of many rights,
internal spying of U.S. citizens, and the reduction of the middle-class and the
influx of the new poor. How “AWESOME”
was that for the first four years!?
Although
there is more to list, one has to leave it up to you, the reader, to think
about it and remember what else happened that changed our lives and the perception
of the world we live in today.
The second
term was no better than the first. However, most people still remember both inaugurations:
the pelting of eggs on the first inaugural ride on the president’s motorcade to
the White House, and the “private” motorcade during the second inauguration due
to the many protesters.
Still, the
next four years of Bush’s Corporate States of America (CSA) included
murder-suicides of families reeling from the reality of losing everything and
becoming poor, hate-mongering paranoia that led to everyone being suspect for
questioning or criticizing Bush’s actions, motives, and excuses rather than
reasons in any way, shape, or form, “Homeland Security” and the handling of
hurricane Katrina, the extension and expansion of the Bush tax cuts, record home foreclosures, the failure of Wall Street, the collapsing of the U.S. auto industry, and the near collapse of the U.S. economy.
On the eve
of The Great Recession of 2007 under George W. Bush, the top 10% received 49.7%
of total income, thus paying only 19% in tax filings while the middle-class
continued to pay the “Bush Tax Cuts” 35% on top of paying 20% more into social
security and another 20% into state taxes (if applied) or 1.1 and 6.7 times as
mush into state and sales taxes.
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Again, what was so "awesome" of eight years of Dub'ya, and who really benefited from his administration? If people continue to vote against their best interest, just think what a Romney presidency would bring.
As the country continues to recover slowly despite the all out obstruction of Republicans and a Boehner-controlled House of "Representatives", it seems we are headed back to those "awesome" times again on steroids if Tea Party influenced Republicans regain control of the White House.
Think about it.
