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Top Ten Ways Reasons to Vote for Bush
Based on his Economic Policies
His First Term in Office
10. He set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, and the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
9. He is the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union, simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.
8. He presided over the biggest energy crises in US history, and the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
7. He set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.
6. He cut unemployment benefits for out-of-work Americans and health care benefits for war veterans.
5. In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs, and millions more their health insurance.
4. He set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period, the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
3. He shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history.
2. He spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.
1. He entered office with the strongest economy in US history, including huge governemnt surpluses, and in less than two years managed to plunge it into the ground.
Top Ten Ways Reasons to Vote for Bush
Based on his Civil Liberties Record
His First Term in Office
10. He is the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
9. He created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security".
8. He is the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
7. He appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
6. He is the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
5. He made his presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
4. He is the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
3. He removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history
2. He signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history
1. He removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
Top Ten Ways Reasons to Vote for Bush
Based on his Leadership and Integrity
His First Term in Office
10. He has hidden from public scritiny all records regarding: governor of Texas, records of any SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies, minutes of meetings he or his VP attended regarding public energy policy, meetings of any public corporation for which he served on the board, his military records, and his arrest records for DUIs and drug use, (exception for at least one DUI in Maine).
9. He set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history, and the all-time US (and world) record for most corporate campaign donations.
8. Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.)
7. He changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts, and set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law, by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.
6. He is the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
5. He has held fewer press conferences than any other president since the advent of TV, perferring to gather information on citizens through poles and focus groups.
4. He made his presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history
3. He was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during the Viet Nam war
2. He became the first US President to run and hide the US came under attack (flying around the country in Air Force 1).
1. He presided over the worst security failure in US history, after racking up more vacation days than any president in US history.
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