What are the positive issues of the Bush Presidency?
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He has increased foreign aid to Africa to fight aids and genocide.  He has gotten his tax bill into law.  He has increased spending on environmental studies.  He has appointed more minorities and women to higher positions than any president in history.\nHe has kept unemployment low even through a stock crash.\nGot medicare reform bill passed.\nNow the question of how much his policy has any real effect on those issues is yet to be seen; nonetheless, he has at the very least ACTED on the issues rather than do the DC norm of just TALKING about them.\n\nAs far as those who say the tax bill is only for the wealthy shame on you for not knowing simple economics and ignorance to current tax laws.  If one person pays $1000 in tax and another pays $10000 and they both get the same amount of government services, who should get more back if there is a refund?  If you hold to FAIRNESS and cut a straight percentage of 17% one gets 170 the other 1700 is that fair?  YES
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President Bush is a wonderful president! And you are wrong in the polls...the latest polls show a 40% rating. 82% percent of this poll are Republicans. Now I will tell you why I totally respect our president.... I hope I don't leave anything out!!\n\n1. Low unemployment (5.3 million new jobs)\n2. Excellent growth. \n3. Low inflation (under 3% ... In spite of gas prices)\n4. Low interest rates. \n5. Bush has given tax breaks back to the working class.\n6. Has lead the world in aid to Africa.\n7. He has appointed more minorities to the highest levels in government.\n8. He has increased spending on education, environment, social programs, Medicaid and drug plans.\n9. He has extended tax cuts. \n10.The economy is still stable in spite of the war and Katrina.\n\nAnd:\n\nHe has restored our moral values. He relies on God for guidance in his decision making. (His ethics and moral values are those seen of Godly men.)\nHe cares enough to try to make this country a better and safer place?\nHe openly asks for solutions from both parties. (but because of their political agendas would rather his polices fail then for them to work as a team to better this country.)\n\nAnd the war in Iraq has brought down an evil dictator, Saddam, and freed the Iraqis to begin a new government. They now have a Prime Minister and a full Cabinet, and have established their own Constitution. They have soldiers in training and a police force. And the Iraqis are thankful to our troops for their help and support in all these things.\n\nAnd now, our troops, our coalition, and the Iraqi police have brought down and killed the evil terrorist leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Since his death, many raids (400+) and many documents and have lead to the capture of other terrorist.\n\nPresident Bush has accomplished much... In spite of bashing from the media and the left...\n\nUnfortunately, the "leftist" and Liberals will see nothing but negativity in our President. They will continue to make fun of his way of talking, the way he looks, the way he walks, and never give him any credit for any of the good he has done. \n\nThis bashing and disrespect is sad that they choose to do this instead of supporting him. However, President Bush will just continue doing the job he was elected to do, inspite of them.
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President Bush is an exceptional leader and a great President. He is the man.
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Bush - bad. People- pretty good.
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Elect Bush as president.
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Usually people can't really tell if a president has done well until years down the road since change takes time.  Also, the problems or ease a current president faces is generally the result of what the previous president has created.  We'll just have to wait and see.  My opinion is Bush is taking care of a problem Clinton could have addressed during his time, but turned a blindeye, and now we all are suffering.
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I'm pretty optimistic....as long as we don't get another Bush in the office....\n\nIf we do get another Bush in the office....God help us all....
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I like Bush.\n\nTax cuts (for everyone)\nGreat economy (especially after the Clintons and 9/11)\nWar against terror (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea...)\n1st administration to recognize the illegal immigration problem\nHe put more minorities in higher positions than ever before\nDidnt sell secrets to China like Clinton did\netc etc etc\n\nEveryone feels dumb now that they found out the WMDs were real.\nThat WAS the reason people didnt like him.\n\nBTW...Gas prices go up because we don't have enough refineries and environmentalists won't allow us to make more.\n\nThe only problem is that he is weak. He has caved in to the Liberal Media and won't push through with his plans.
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It depends on which George Bush you are talking about. For George H.W. Bush, I think that George H.W. Bush was a good leader for the country but was not a strong leader like Ronald Reagan. As for George W. Bush, I voted for him twice and although I do approve of his leadership and his decision to go to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, I think that President Bush (the current one) needs to focus on issues at home including improving education because during the 2000 Presidential Election, he said that education was his top priority and I do not know if that is still his number one priority.
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Here is 25 reasons for ya. \n\n25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH\n\nEconomic Indicators\n\n1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000\n\n2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.\n\n3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.\n\n4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.\n\n5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.\n\n6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.\n\n7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.\n\n8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.\n\n9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators\n\n10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.\n\n11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.\n\n12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.\n\n13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.\n\n14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.\n\n15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.\n\n16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.\n\nCrime and Drug Use Indicators\n\n17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.\n\n18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rate increased by 3.9 percent, and the
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positive:\n1)  boost economy\n2) increase technology\n3)  creates a foundation for the future\n\nnegative:\n1) increase chance in corruption/ scandal\n2)  increase chance to lose their roots and values\n3)  the transition from agriculture to markets will cause problems since is difficult, but can be accomplished through time
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Yeah, there's so much to be grateful for. Since 2000, the Bush administration has:\n1) Tarnished America's reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper to a point that it may never be repaired;\n2) Lied to the country about weapons of mass destruction so that it could illegally and unconstitutionally invade Iraq;\n3) Put Americans TRILLIONS of dollars in debt that will take generations to pay off (if we ever can);\n4) Killed 665,000 Iraqis for no justifiable reason, as well as almost 3,000 U.S. soldiers;\n5) Disregarded the rules of the Geneva Convention;\n6) Tortured 'detainees' in secret CIA prisons;\n7) Neglected the needs of America's poor, sick, disabled, old, disadvantaged, hungry,. homeless and indigent;\n8) Ignored the delicate ecological balance between plants, man and animals that allow us to co-exist on this planet;\n9) Turned America into a police state wherein citizens are presumed guilty until proven innocent;\n10) Held the U.S. Constitution hostage while it took the law into its own hands.             \nWe owe Republicans gratitude??? I think not!!     -RKO-
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a safer nation from terrorism. A better economy.  Lower taxes.  More freedom.
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25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH\n\nEconomic Indicators\n\n1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000\n\n2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.\n\n3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.\n\n4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.\n\n5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.\n\n6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.\n\n7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.\n\n8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.\n\n9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators\n\n10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.\n\n11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.\n\n12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.\n\n13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.\n\n14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.\n\n15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.\n\n16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.\n\nCrime and Drug Use Indicators\n\n17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.\n\n18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rate increased by 3.9 percent, and the rate of property crimes increa
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George Bush IS a great president. He is the best person we could have had in office when 9-11 hit. He's done a great job economically. Our economy is on the rise. He is also steadfast when it comes to the war on terror. I know that he cannot run for a 3rd term but if he could I would vote for him again.
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Bush is definitly a much better president\n\nThere were more scandals during clinton's presidency then any others.  The head of FBI during clinton's presidency gave back his confidential access to the white house because he didn't want to be considered part of one of the scandals.  he spent more time investigating the white house the doing anything else during his eight years\n\nI won't even touch most of the things that went on but i do have to mention his affair
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I'd say one of the most pressing issues would include the US occupation of Iraq.  I'm sure you can find lots of historical data and speculations about the future conclusion.