I want to know why people are so unhappy with him. Why was he booed while throwing the first pitch at the Nationals game tonight?
The war? Whats changed? It was a pretty popular decision to go into Iraq. As I remember, we, the Brits, and mother Russia all were sure there were nukes there. Turns out there wasnt; whats a President to do? Say never mind and bring everyone home? Thats OUR lives lost in vain by my count.
Ahh ... the declaration of "success" was made over three years ago ... and we're still there. That could be part of it.
The economy? The President should have very little to do with our economy; laissez fare as our system was founded on. What was he supposed to do? Go out and buy a bunch of stocks? Stocks/jobs/inflation rises and falls no matter who lives on Pennsylvania Avenue.
How about not enacting practices such as the
NO CHILD LEFT A DIME program, where public schools now pay teachers, assistants, and private nurses to sit all day long and change the diapers or menstrual pads of teenagers who can't recite their ABC's? My wife was a substitute teacher for a number of years. When the
NO CHILD LEFT A DIME program came along, she was re-assigned from being a substitute, to sitting all day long beside a 16-year old wheelchair-bound girl who couldn't talk or communicate, and wore a pad on her arm to wipe off her drool on. The girl had to be taken to the bathroom and cleaned up when completed. The class they were in had 5 similar students ... each requiring one assistant and a classroom nurse. The school had to hire several nurses, and purchase several specially equipped wheelchair lift buses. As a result, local taxes were raised and teachers took a 2% salary cut. Within 2 years, my wife (and a lot of other teachers and assistants) quit.
I live in Northern Virginia and know two people who work or worked with the President and they were both very complementary to the mans personality, his desire to do what is best for the country. Why is his approval rating in the 20s? What did 70 some percent of America want him to do differently?
How about helping out american workers and not padding the pockets of people in the "good ole boy" network around him?
I would say there is a good bit to be unhappy with when considering the government and I am far from an expert on politics or history; but why and who decided W would make an appropriate scapegoat?
He's not responsible for all the flaws in our economy. But he certainly has done his share of damage. The killer for me was about two months back, he was giving a press conference and a reporter ask him what he thought about the prospect of $4.00-per-gallon gas prices during this summer; Bush looked completely stunned and said "He hadn't heard about that". You can tell he doesn't pump his own gas.
I know now I'm wishing a lot of the folks who voted for him stick had their Bush/Cheney bumper stickers on their cars. That would be funny.
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