Unintentional consequences

The Patriot Act is once again at the center of attention. It is destroying trade and competition. If we don't trade how are we going to make the world a better place? Competition is one of the cornerstone of a free-trade market. Bush will forever hunt the American economy.

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/11/patriot-act-clouds-picture-us-tech-industry

Surveillance

This morning before school I was watching Zack Snyder's Watchmen. The tag line of the movie reads, "Who will watch The Watchmen?" Not directly comparing the Bush Adminstration to superheroes of alternate universe, but who watches the President? Movies such as, All The Kings Men, Frost/Nixon, and All The Presidents Men ask this same question? Who keeps a President in check during a time of war. Constitutionally the Commander-in-Cheif has unlimited power during a time of war. Referring to the Watchmen is it plausible to think that our own government would attack us or allow someone to attack us to perpetuate a power they have never legally had such as wiretapping? If one President had done it before why wouldn't another President do it? Through out Bush's eight years in office five of them we were at war and three of them he was on vacation like Dr. Manhattan of The Watchmen. Dr. Manhattan was on vacation because he was trying to figure out why he should fight for a humanity he was no longer part of. Who knows why George Bush would want to be elected President and then go on vacation? Like The Watchmen nobody watched him or kept him in line. He only answered to himself and no one else.

Gratitude

One thing that I am thankful for on November 24, 2011 is that the country is headed in a different direction. We are no longer following a leader who believes that a war will raise America's status back to greatness. Instead we are being led by an optimistic and open President. George W. Bush was never an open President in my opinion. Whenever he was confronted by the media about questions he should have had the answer to he became tone deaf and always tried to Red Herr people. I am sure everyone has seen his eight minute stare he displayed when he heard America was under attack in a Florida elementary school. If not you should really YouTube it or watch Fahrenheit 9/11. Barack Obama gives me that feeling that I have a voice in my future. His town hall discussions and YouTube sessions are vital to my belief in what he stands for. George Bush spent to much time behind closed doors wire tapping people, shooting his vice President in the head and calling it an accident,and on the farm. He never made me think my democratic views were important. So I am thankful that he is no longer in office and never will be again.

The Blame Game

The problem with the scapegoat defense is that at some point somebody has to be held accountable. When George Bush first came into office the national debt

stood at $5.727 trillion

. On September 29, 2008 it stood at

more than $9.849 trillion

.

That's a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush's watch

and

It's the biggest increase under any president in U.S history.

. The debt ceiling was raised seven times during his administration. Why won't congress allow President Obama to raise the debt ceiling seven times? Who is the scapegoat for America's national debt: Bush or Obama? Who takes accountability for putting the U.S. in its worse crisis in recent years? I know that it was Bush leadership that put us into three wars at one time, caused electoral problems like never before, who did little to respond to potential natural disasters, and left the American citizens hanging in limbo. On August 2, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011. This not only averted a financial crisis, but it also plans to slow the growth rate of the national debt by forming bipartisan committees. He signed this into law while we were still at war; why couldn't President Bush do this? I believe he was to concerned about pleasing donors(oil lobbyist) and the 1%. Did Bush presidency inevitably cause these Occupy Movements? Has Obama fell into the same seat that Richard Nixon fell into when he took office after Lyndon B. Johnson? Although Obama will not commit crimes such as Watergate he was handed a war by his previous President and the American people look to him to end the war. This has made him the scapegoat. But he is not the one we need to blame. It is the 42nd President George W. Bush.

Relevancy

By the end of George Bush's presidency he had done much. He successfully worked with congress to pass major legislation which would protect the U.S.A. These included:

1. The USA Patriot Act 2. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act 3. The Protect America Act and 4. Modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

These legislation's had more than twenty federal agencies merge together to create the Department of Homeland Security. There was also some tax and education reform. These were all relevant to ensure the trust of the citizens who put him into office. What about the vacations he took for no purposeful meaning other than leisure time? Or the commanding of troops to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, and build a new country with his ideals? George Bush is a known criminal. Criminals are for the most part inherently narcissistic. They are also manipulative. Did Bush manipulate his constituents into believing that we needed to go to war with countries in the Middle East? Where his attempts to reform education selling points to convince the people who put him in office to trust him in a time of uncertainty? When the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that U.S. economy was in a recession in 2007 Bush had no response except that he was leaving office and it is no longer his responsibility. When it was time for war he was eager, but when it came time to do what he was meant to do, which was lead the economy into the 21st century, he completed abandon the citizens. Sounds like a true president.Why is this discussion relevant? Knowing who you decide to put in office will be a major indicator of your families and the economies future.

Origins!

James Hutton's Uniformitarianism concept states that,the present is the key to the past. In retrospect my blogs may seem hateful towards George Bush. This is however not the case. I just dislike his terms as president. He has forever put a damper on my generations and my kids. The recession that he caused with his personal vendetta has been felted around the world. So to understand why James Hutton's Uniformitarianism applies here I reexamined exactly when the recession began. People want to bash Presdient Obama because he can not solve the problems of the recession, which was 8 years in the making.

That means President Barack Obama will almost certainly go before voters next November seeking a second term with the highest unemployment of any sitting president since World War II.

The job market turned consistently negative in February 2008. The nation lost jobs for 25 months in a row - almost 8.8 million of them in all. Since then, the economy has only recovered 2.3 million jobs. The unemployment rate has hovered around 9 percent for more than two years, and the Federal Reserve said this week that it will is not expected to fall significantly through the end of next year.

Instead of blaming Obama people should do their research to understand how and why we arrived at this Great Recession. Maybe then this blog will seem more meaningful instead of a Bush Era product with a personal vendetta who wants to destroy the former president.

Repercussions

On "Glee" last night Sue Sylvester said something very important: "The Clinton years are over. We are in a recession." Bill Clinton must have had a good presidency. Although it was clouded by a sex scandal citizens still look to him for leadership years after he was president. I have never heard anyone refer to George Bush for leadership or guidance during hard times. I realize there is a reason for that. He brought on hard time during his presidency and he did not make them better before he left office. Instead they were passed on to his predecessor, Barack Obama. Now Obama seems like a unworthy president today when in reality what he is doing for the country is a lot more realistic and personal than what George Bush did for the country. Now the question is: Since George Bush got re-elected after a voting scandal will Obama get the same re-election treatment although he has not been involved in any scandal(Especially one that involves his siblings or family members)?