A Stroll Down Memory Lane

By Terri Shaw, Center for American Progress

Taxes were cut for the wealthiest Americans back in the early years of the Bush Administration.

Next, the debt started to accumulate and because the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has been very costly, this Administration has created the highest debt burden in history, and our children and grandchildren will have to pay it off

Is it coming back to you?

If that isn't bad enough, some of the debt incurred was done with no-bid contracts.

Jan. 28, 2004--Prescription Drug Prices: "The Medicare prescription drug benefit that the President signed into law in 2003 and lauded in his State of the Union speech in January 2004 omitted any effective mechanisms to lower prescription drug prices.

Fux!

Instead, Bush and Congressional leaders drafted the law with the intent of emulating the private market practices that have brought us to where we are today--exploding prescription drug costs that are increasingly borne by patients due to health insurers’ restructuring of drug benefits.

Even if the Medicare program experiences similarly unsustainable costs, the new law expressly forbids the secretary of Health and Human Services from acting to ensure reasonable prices under the drug benefit."

Over 51% of Seniors have not signed up for this program to date because they are unsure about the costs, and the plan is very complex for people with Advanced degrees to understand, let alone seniors in their late 80's and 90's.

Just as Bush had previously bankrupt his own oil company, he has now bankrupt America.

And who benefits from this?

Bush, Cheney and their cronies have, that’s who!

And who is going to pay for all of this?

The Middle Class!

Who will pay for all the Medical bills and Social Services for all the illegal immigrants who need these services and by the way, who do not pay taxes?

The Middle Class!

After having created this huge mess, how can Bush and Cheney act so indifferent and scold us for questioning their decisions?

Have they no shame, no conscience?

Where are their deeply held religious convictions we have been hearing about these past 6 plus years?

What became of the "compassionate conservative" Bush?