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The Bush Legacy Jan. 2001 Today
Gas prices $1.37 $3.60
Unemployment Rates 4.2% 6.1%
Uninsured Under 65 39 Million 47 Million
Workers Covered By Employer-Based Health Insurance 64.2% 59.7%
Home Heating Oil Prices $1.40 $3.69
Crude Oil Prices Per Barrel  $29.59 $116
Median Household Income  $49,163 $48,201
Budget: Deficit/Surplus  $431 Billion Surplus Over The Previous 3 Budget Years    $734 Billion Deficit Over The Previous 3 Budget Years, plus $700 billion in 2008
National Debt  $5.7 Trillion $9.8 Trillion
Consumer Credit Debt $7.65 Trillion $12.8 Trillion
Real GDP Growth 4.09% Over Prior 8 Years 2.65% Over Prior 7 Years
Americans in Poverty 31.6 Million 36.5 Million
Annual Total Health Insurance Premium Cost $6,230 For Family Premium Per Year $12,106 For Family Premium Per Year 
Average Cost Of A
Prescription Drug		 $47.54 $68.26
Electricity $914 Per Year $1,108 Per Year
Groceries  $3,021 Per Year $3,417 Per Year 
Average Tuition At Public College  $3,739 Per Year $3,417 Per Year
Average Tuition At Private College $16,211 $23,712
Jobs Created 1.76 Million Per Year Over Previous 8 Years 369,000 Jobs Per Year Over Previous 7 Years loses in 2008
Personal Savings Rate +2.3% -0.5%
U.S. Trade Deficit $380 Billion $759 Billion
Strength Of U.S. Dollar 1.07 Euros per dollar  0.68 Euros per dollar

 

 
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The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. You'll want to be
the first at your corporation to make a contribution to this great man's legacy.

The Library will include:

1. The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.

2. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can't remember anything.

3. The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't have to even show up.

4. The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.

5. The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.

6. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to find).

7. The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you go back for a
second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.

8. The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting
gallery.

9. Plans also include: The K-Street Project Gift Shop - where you can buy (or just steal)
an election.

10. The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican
Senators.

11. Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of
the President's ego.

To highlight the President's accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope
to help you locate them.
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How to know if you are extreme right wing...are you

Someone who talks like Thomas Jefferson but governs like Elmer Gantry?
Someone who believes The Constitution is subordinate to National Security?

Someone who believes that of all of the rights guaranteed in the first ten amendments to The Constitution, only the right to bear arms is unlimited?

Someone who believes that you have the right to practice whatever religion you want, as long as you practice a religion, and as long as it is Judeo-Christian?

Someone who thinks that tearing up at the sound of the Star Spangled Banner is a sign of patriotism, while questioning the wisdom of  U.S. foreign policy is a sign of treachery?

Someone who is skeptical about these scientists and their theory of global warming, but believes unquestioningly anything that Rush Limbaugh says?


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Do you know where you stand politically?

Take the political test HERE!!

Which one are YOU?

 

Conservatives (right wing) tend to favor economic freedom, but frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates "traditional values." They oppose excessive government control of business, while endorsing government action to defend morality and the traditional family structure. Conservatives usually support a strong military that is keyed to both defense and offense, oppose bureaucracy and high taxes, favor a free-market economy, and endorse strong law enforcement.

 

Liberals (left wing) usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support certain government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business against abuses. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles. While Liberals favor a strong military, they see it directed toward defense rather than offense.

 

Libertarians support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.


Statists (fascists?) want government to have a great deal of power over both the economy and individual behavior. They frequently doubt whether economic liberty and individual freedom are practical options in today's world. Statists tend to distrust the free market, support high taxes and government spending, and centralized planning of the economy, oppose diverse lifestyles, and question the importance of civil liberties.




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