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Robert Proctor's List: Bush Legacy
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we stopped investing in our infrastructure — think what $3 trillion could do for roads, research, education or even private investment, if part of that sum had simply been left in taxpayers’ pockets — and we missed the chance to rethink our national energy policy.
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Ten years on, could it be that the planes that hit New York and Washington did less damage to the nation than the cascade of bad decisions that followed?
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Aug 11, 11
* * * * * Wikipedia's charts show who ran it up--with explanations.
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Aug 11, 11
* * * * * Chart. It shows which presidents ran up debt and who holds it. Good.
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Aug 11, 11
* * * * * Details how Bush did it to us
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George W. Bush ran up $6.4 trillion. That’s nearly half—44.7 percent—of the $14.3 trillion total. We all know what did it—two massive tax cuts geared toward the rich (along with other similar measures, like slashing the capital gains and inheritance taxes), the off-the-books wars, the unfunded Medicare expansion, and so on. But the number is staggering and worth dwelling on. In a history covering 30 years, nearly half the debt was run up in eight.
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party fought tooth and nail against every single move Clinton made that ended up putting us in surplus.
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Jan 16, 09
Every day was joyous? He should've been pessimistic more often.
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Dec 29, 08
Ellen Goodman, insulted by Bush going-away shenanigans and blasting beautifully.
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Oct 14, 08
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
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Apr 15, 09
George W. Bush Institute of Management Failure as name for his policy institute.
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