Say Anything Blog

Many on the left would have you believe that George W. Bush has done very little during his term in office. Sometimes its hard for the average person to gage just how much the President is getting through the normal news outlets. Lately even conservatives have been giving it too Bush over his recent spending binge.

To avoid some confusion, the Free Republic (via Blogs for Bush) has been kind enough to post a list of Bush's accomplishments. Here is one section:

1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.


2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.


3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.


4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority.


5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.


6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.


7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.


8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.


9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.


10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.


11. Signed trade promotion authority.


12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.


13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States.
    Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.


14. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.


15. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.


16. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child.

Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.

17. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans.
    Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.

And that's just one section.

He's spent quite a few tax dollars along the way, but taken as a whole I think Bush has done a pretty good job. Lets not forget that he's accomplished most of this while still managing to guide us through 9/11, a war in Afghanistan and a war in Iraq.