Thread: If Bush Had ....

As many of you know GW has written a book and is out selling it now. The topic is the process by which he made decisions and the purpose is to tell the American people how and why he made them as a point of reference for US, future Presidents and historians. I've not read the book and probably won't, but a question was asked him about his "legacy" and correctly he said that takes a long time for historians to judge, which is true. But for those of US living in the present of his "legacy" and as a potential guide to our immediate futures I wondered if Bush had made different decisions on certain issues, what would our situation be today and how would that affect his "legacy".

If Bush had:

1. Secured our borders and vigorously enforced US immigration law, we wouldn't have millions of illegal aliens in our country, we wouldn't have illegal aliens suing our government, using our services, crowding our schools and hospitals, stealing jobs and businesses from Americans, and our deficits would be smaller, our unemployment lower, our wages higher and poverty greatly reduced. But instead, he chose a globalist open borders inspired "guest worker program" that did the complete opposite.

2. Encouraged passage of the FairTax which he liked, our corporations would have stopped leaving the US, many of those who had left would be rushing back home, no one would be hiring illegal aliens, imports would be paying at least their cost of the market they use to profit from, SS and MediCare would be fully funded, net expendable income would be way up, unemployment and poverty rates would be way down and the deficits and debt they both proliferate significantly reduced. But instead, he formed a Tax Panel that recommended tax cuts under the existing failed mandated income system that Republicans have opposed since the day it was passed in 1913.

3. Protected our trade which is a core Republican principle as far back as when our party was founded, we would have saved tens of millions of good jobs and all the investment, earnings, profits, infrastructure, technology, brain trusts, innovations that accompany American based enterprise and be a much more profitable, sustainable, independent nation. But instead, he formed treasonous trade alliances called Free Trade Agreements, that forged the trails and poured the pavement for a globalist trade policy that tied up our market to virtually every nation in the world, doubled our trade deficits, sucked the life and breath out of the US economy and destroyed the livelihoods of the American People who sustain it.

4. Insisted that Iraq and Afghanistan approve secular non-religion based Constitutions, both Iraq and Afghanistan would have Constitutions either similar to ours or Britain's and the influence of political Muslimism in both countries greatly diminished. But instead, he chose to cave in to the religious faction and told Paul Bremer over Breme's vehement objections to go ahead with the elections to approve Muslim-based Constitutions in both countries. Bremer of course subsequently resigned.

To me, these are the 4 worst decisions of the Bush Administration and ones that I hope and pray are reversed by the next President of the United States.

What do you think the worst decisions of the Bush Administration were that you would like to see reversed by the next President of the United States?

I skip Obama because he's already confirmed that he supports illegal immigration, mandated income taxation, free trade treason and Muslim-based governments, the exact same policies of the Bush Administration.

Those you listed and more however unlike our current president I believe Bush made his mistakes simply by not understanding or out of touch with society as a whole. Bush did not scare me like Obama.

Originally Posted by oldguy

Those you listed and more however unlike our current president I believe Bush made his mistakes simply by not understanding or out of touch with society as a whole. Bush did not scare me like Obama.

Yes, I would have to agree with you oldguy. I hope the next President of the United States agrees with US and will commit early to reverse these policies.