Debate: Obama as president in '12?
Side: No, I don't like his policies.

OH, YEAH, here is Bush's. SO what if he was on vocation a lot, he was the President.Budget, Taxes & Economy1. 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.14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child.18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans.20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Environment1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives.4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.Government Reform1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises.2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs.3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers.5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.Health1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free.2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health.3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes:A 10-year privatization option.Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine.More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Note don't agree with Abortion*