The Bus campaign tour

[vetbass]

Signed the HIRE Act to stimulate the economic recovery (2010) * Note: The bill includes: tax cuts for small businesses who hire someone unemployed for at least two months; small businesses can write off their investments in equipment this year; etc.

? Signed historic Wall Street reform bill (2010) * Note: Designed to reregulate and end abusive practices and promote consumer protections

? Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants?) (2009) * Note: Bush was the first president since Herbert Hoover to not make infrastructure a priority

? Authorized a $789 billion economic stimulus plan (2009) * Note: 1/3 in tax cuts for working-class families; 1/3 to states for infrastructure projects; 1/3 to states to prevent the layoff of police officers, teachers, etc. at risk of losing their jobs because of state budget shortfalls

? Authorized the ?Cash for Clunkers? program that stimulated auto sales and removed old, inefficient, polluting cars from the road (2009)

? Ended the Bush-era policy of protecting credit card companies (2009) * Note: In place of the old policy, new consumer protections were instituted and the industry?s predatory practices were banned

? Authorized the federal government to make more loans available to small businesses and ordered lower rates for federal loans to small businesses (2009

Placed a 35% tariff on Chinese tires and a few other products such as pipes after China was found to be illegally ?dumping? exports below cost (2009) * Note: Clinton, Bush I, and Reagan all refused to ?get tough? on China?s predatory trade practices; Bush II refused four times during his presidency

? Signed historic Wall Street reform bill (2010) * Note: Designed to reregulate and end abusive practices and promote consumer protections

? Signed the HIRE Act to stimulate the economic recovery (2010) * Note: The bill includes: tax cuts for small businesses who hire someone unemployed for at least two months; small businesses can write off their investments in equipment this year; etc.

? Expanded agricultural credit to farmers during current economic crisis (2010
Signed bill ? US Manufacturing Enhancement Act (2010)
Negotiated a deal with Swiss banks to permit the US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals (2009)

? Ended the Bush-era policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs (2009) * Note: The new policy promotes in-sourcing investments to brings jobs back to the US

Signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which provides small tax cuts for 95% of ?working families

Ordered the closing of offshore tax safe havens (for individual and business tax evaders
Extended the Home Buyers Credit for first-time home buyers (2009)
? Proposed doubling the child tax credit (2010)
? Called for the repeal of the capital gains tax for small businesses


i can continue if you would like

[mhall]

On almost every single one of those vetbass there is a caviat that makes them a bust. Too much to break down and type, but you are reaching hard my friend reaching real hard, lol. Most of those were totallu useless to the economy and have us in the shape we are now, which is on the brink of a National DEPRESSION, Sans the recession.

But if you want to keep going with posting his futile useless efforts, go right ahead, LOL.

[Tom523]

Signed the HIRE Act to stimulate the economic recovery (2010) * Note: The bill includes: tax cuts for small businesses who hire someone unemployed for at least two months; small businesses can write off their investments in equipment this year; etc.

? Signed historic Wall Street reform bill (2010) * Note: Designed to reregulate and end abusive practices and promote consumer protections

? Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants?) (2009) * Note: Bush was the first president since Herbert Hoover to not make infrastructure a priority

? Authorized a $789 billion economic stimulus plan (2009) * Note: 1/3 in tax cuts for working-class families; 1/3 to states for infrastructure projects; 1/3 to states to prevent the layoff of police officers, teachers, etc. at risk of losing their jobs because of state budget shortfalls

? Authorized the ?Cash for Clunkers? program that stimulated auto sales and removed old, inefficient, polluting cars from the road (2009)

? Ended the Bush-era policy of protecting credit card companies (2009) * Note: In place of the old policy, new consumer protections were instituted and the industry?s predatory practices were banned

? Authorized the federal government to make more loans available to small businesses and ordered lower rates for federal loans to small businesses (2009

Placed a 35% tariff on Chinese tires and a few other products such as pipes after China was found to be illegally ?dumping? exports below cost (2009) * Note: Clinton, Bush I, and Reagan all refused to ?get tough? on China?s predatory trade practices; Bush II refused four times during his presidency

? Signed historic Wall Street reform bill (2010) * Note: Designed to reregulate and end abusive practices and promote consumer protections

? Signed the HIRE Act to stimulate the economic recovery (2010) * Note: The bill includes: tax cuts for small businesses who hire someone unemployed for at least two months; small businesses can write off their investments in equipment this year; etc.

? Expanded agricultural credit to farmers during current economic crisis (2010
Signed bill ? US Manufacturing Enhancement Act (2010)
Negotiated a deal with Swiss banks to permit the US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals (2009)

? Ended the Bush-era policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs (2009) * Note: The new policy promotes in-sourcing investments to brings jobs back to the US

Signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which provides small tax cuts for 95% of ?working families

Ordered the closing of offshore tax safe havens (for individual and business tax evaders
Extended the Home Buyers Credit for first-time home buyers (2009)
? Proposed doubling the child tax credit (2010)
? Called for the repeal of the capital gains tax for small businesses


i can continue if you would like

OK and what was the success? Unemployment is still over 9%, sales of new homes is down. The U.S. taxpayer lost money on the bailout of the auto makers, taxpayers lost money on the cash for clunkers program, how many jobs did that create? shovel ready jobs were not shovel ready, the stimulus was ineffective, the tax cuts on small business were negated by the estimated cost of Obamacare, Employers will not hire until they can figure out what they have to pay, the moratorium on drilling in gulf but giving Mexico 2 billion dollars to drill in the gulf was just wealth redistribution. His over regulation of business has cost the U.S jobs. The wall street reform bill is ineffective because it still leaves the fox guarding the hen house just like before. His energy policy stymies the growth of our economy and costs jobs in the oil and coal industry. His stance on illegal immigration costs our government billions of dollars a year due to the burden of illegal immigrants using our health care facilities, schools, public welfare. , and social security that they haven't paid into. He forgave 5 billion dollars in debt that Egypt owed us. Who's forgiving our debt? You said it! he passed a bunch of ineffective legislation and spent a whole lot of taxpayer money and it didn't help one bit. Thank you for listing all of the things that didn't work.

[vetbass]

Once again much of these policies were not designed to magically turn around the mess left behind--no one ever said that the stimulus would solve the whole economic mess it was designed to stop the bleeding and prevent the economy from dropping into depression which it did--I dont see the economy losing 700,000 jobs a month like it was the economy actually started growing albeit slowy--bailout for the automakers saved gm and chrysler in turn saving millions of jobs--gm paid back their ballout with interest and chrysler last i heard had repaid much of their ballout with interest--as far as employers not hiring because of what they might owe--wrong--employers are not hiring because they are uncertain about consumptionof their products due to the recession left behind--jobs are always the last thing to improve during any economic downturn--jobs will not return until the entire economy is moving again--recovery from such a huge mess will take several years well into obamas 2nd term

it took eight years for bush to wreck the economy and you guys expect obama to fix it in a couple of years--sorry it doesnt work that way

[Tom523]

Once again much of these policies were not designed to magically turn around the mess left behind--no one ever said that the stimulus would solve the whole economic mess it was designed to stop the bleeding and prevent the economy from dropping into depression which it did--I dont see the economy losing 700,000 jobs a month like it was the economy actually started growing albeit slowy--bailout for the automakers saved gm and chrysler in turn saving millions of jobs--gm paid back their ballout with interest and chrysler last i heard had repaid much of their ballout with interest--as far as employers not hiring because of what they might owe--wrong--employers are not hiring because they are uncertain about consumptionof their products due to the recession left behind--jobs are always the last thing to improve during any economic downturn--jobs will not return until the entire economy is moving again--recovery from such a huge mess will take several years well into obamas 2nd term

it took eight years for bush to wreck the economy and you guys expect obama to fix it in a couple of years--sorry it doesnt work that way

You don't fix it by making it worse!

[RICHYD4U]

You don't fix it by making it worse!

Amen! What in the WORLD has Obama done to try and fix the economy!? If you call throwing more money out the window that we don't even have..fixing it...then yes he has!

I can't grasp how anyone can say that this president has bettered our nation since he has been in office??? Crazy...

-Rich

[Chubminnow]

Yea...Fixed it....like that time when I was a youngster and my dad let me try my hand at one of his spinning reels, got one heck of a nest in it after about the 4th and 5th cast when he looked at it and said to me; "Boy you really FIXED IT good didn't you?!!"

[Hlleonard]

Once again much of these policies were not designed to magically turn around the mess left behind--no one ever said that the stimulus would solve the whole economic mess it was designed to stop the bleeding and prevent the economy from dropping into depression which it did--I dont see the economy losing 700,000 jobs a month like it was the economy actually started growing albeit slowy--bailout for the automakers saved gm and chrysler in turn saving millions of jobs--gm paid back their ballout with interest and chrysler last i heard had repaid much of their ballout with interest--as far as employers not hiring because of what they might owe--wrong--employers are not hiring because they are uncertain about consumptionof their products due to the recession left behind--jobs are always the last thing to improve during any economic downturn--jobs will not return until the entire economy is moving again--recovery from such a huge mess will take several years well into obamas 2nd term

it took eight years for bush to wreck the economy and you guys expect obama to fix it in a couple of years--sorry it doesnt work that way

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It is pretty much a waste of time to argue with Rush Limbaugh or in this case ,folks of a similar mindset but I guess if it didn't entertain us we wouldn't be reading these posts... I'm not an Obama fan either but not for what he has done while in office, I personally believe he is a muslim and I don't believe that is good for our country... The only president I have liked is Clinton but I do believe Reagan was a patriot in that he actually believed allowing the rich to keep a larger part of their income would result in them investing it in out country, The only thing it caused was them growing deeper pockets... The present commander-in-chief is no different than a long line of those guys that seem to always take the easy way out in that passing the buck to the next guy is par for the course... Raising the debt ceiling seems to be the answer for the problems of most of the presidents in the last 50 or 60 years because anything else wouldn't be a wise re-election decision... I really did think George Bush junior was a complete idiot for the decision to go into Iraq,there are some military actions that are necessary but that one seemed to be an ego trip for him personally.