United George W. Bush has been the most destructive politician / president in the history of the States. Since Bush has taken political office, whether it has been governor, president, or anything else, he has done a huge amount of damage. Under his leadership our economy is in a state of confusion, our integrity has dropped tremendously, and our environmental laws are slowing being lost. Not to mention that many people see our leader as a man on a power trip doing what will help him and not what will help this country.
By selecting Bush as our leader not only are we suffering the consequences, but so are people in other countries.
Before Bush was put into office he did plenty of things that should have made people realize that he would not be the ideal man to run our country. He produced a gory Hollywood slasher B movie. Then he went on to run for congress, with practically no political experience of his own and of course lost.
Next, he bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; he sold all his stock and then the company went bankrupt. Baseball is what really made Bush rich. He decided to buy the Texas Rangers baseball team, using taxpayer money and land. He had a stadium built and convinced the city to pay for everything. When someone else came along wanting to buy the team he simply cashed out, and walked away rich. Finally, with the help of his father’s name, he was elected governor of Texas.
As governor of Texas, Bush made a lot of changes for the worse. To start off he changed the policy to let convicted criminals have government jobs. Bush definitely set the record for the most executions ever while he was governor, a whopping 152. He even had enough nerve to mock a woman he put to death (Madsen). He cut taxes and basically bankrupted Texas by billions of borrowed dollars. George W. Bush also changed the pollution laws in favor of the oil companies. By doing so he swapped Los Angeles for Houston as the most smog-ridden city in the US. Bush then became president, not by popular vote, but only by electoral votes. Currently, as president, Bush has made a lot of big mistakes. First off, he is the only
president ever elected with a previous criminal record (dui in Maine), which has been amazingly erased. The “poorest” member of his cabinet had an oil tanker named after her (Condoleeza Rice), but the name was very quietly changed. He completely failed to catch Osama Bin Laden and the anthrax maniac, as he promised. Bush is the first president ever to order a booked attack of a sovereign nation, against the will of the UN. He seems to completely ignore the thoughts and views of the UN altogether. For instance, last year he flat out refused to let the UN inspectors have access to the prisoners of war, which in itself is a violation of the Geneva Convention (treatment with prisoners of war). He has also set the all time record for the highest annual budget increases. Bush took more corporate campaign donations than any other person running for office ever. Overall, the Bush campaign raised 314 million dollars, 80 percent of which was from corporations or individuals employed by them.
One of the largest donations he took was from his lifetime friend, Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron. He is the only president in our history to ever have the majority (71%) of Europeans feel threatened by his presidency. They fear for their own peace and security (Higgins). Also, the people of South Korea feel more threatened by Bush / US than by North Korea, who is right next to them. While Bush took the entire month of August as a vacation his administration was trying to cut the rights of American workers even more. Re-election time is near.
Bush has made a lot of mistakes, and for some reason there are people that still like him. Even though they see that he has repeatedly made promises and obviously not kept them, other countries see us very differently than they have in the past, and our environment is going down hill quickly. Why Bush was elected in the first place is beyond me, considering his past alone. American citizens need to be more careful about who they are voting for and look at the long term effects it is going have on themselves and everyone else.