Promises

[Tripleshot]

Reps make them, Dems keep them.

Summary of Bush's Broken Promises

Deficit

Bush said his tax cut would not cause deficits, even in a bad economy.

Bush's FY 2003 budget posts $106 billion deficit, the first deficit since 1997. The budget will return to balance in 2005, at the earliest.


Social Security

Bush said Social Security Trust Fund would remain in a lockbox.

Bush breached the Social Security Trust Fund and is on schedule to spend $1.65 trillion of it over the next ten years.


National Debt


Bush promised to pay down a record amount of the national debt.


Bush not only failed to pay down the national debt, he has been forced to request a $750 billion increase in the debt limit.

Education Reform

As part of the bipartisan education reform, Bush promised to spend more money on education.

Bush budget cut funding from his own "No Child Left Behind" law and provided the smallest education funding increase in seven years.

Pell Grants

Bush promised to increase the maximum Pell Grant award, thereby increasing access to higher education.

Bush froze Pell Grant limit below his promised level.


LIHEAP

Bush promised to "fully fund" LIHEAP (the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program).

Bush's budget cut LIHEAP by $300 million.

Medicare

Bush pledged to provide Medicare prescription drug coverage for all seniors.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that Bush's plan would cover only 6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries.

Yucca Mountain

Bush promised to listen to sound science and local officials before deciding to bury the nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.

Bush designated Yucca Mountain the site before all the science is in, flouting local officials.

Student Loans

Bush promised to make higher education more accessible by helping students with high costs.

Bush proposed pulling $1.3 billion from a program that allows students to consolidate education loans at federally subsidized interest rates.

Edit: The original link was broken. I was doing this with a RP MP3. I guess the url was too big for posting here.

Have at it.

 

[minendo]

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[no0b]

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[Angrymarshmello]

It's a good thing you didn't promise the link worked

Oh, and what's the point of displaying a link to democrats.org? Do you really think that's unbiased? Hey I can post links from Republicans.org too....does that make everything that's on that site true? No.

 

[nihil]

how about i post a link to all-polititions-lie.biz

 

[LordMaul]

and as for MY feelings on the matter...

 

[yakko]

And we all know the Democrats have never broken a promise before.

 

[Tripleshot]

>>> Hey I can post links from Republicans.org too....does that make everything that's on that site true?<<<

Maybe yes, maybe no. It's worth checking into the facts. It's not a bias, its a revelation. Decide what you want. If you want to dispute it,fine. But at least support your arguement. It has always been a policy of sorts for all the fine people here that have opinions to express them and support them very often from sources just as "biased" as this one. Those who provide their links to Rep.org can do so with the same amount of scrutiny as you suggest. It can and maybe dismissed on that merit alone. But those who do so are not looking at the facts, or lack therof. I just posted what was sent to my hotmail box. It got my interest, and I thought I would share it with you.

And yes, there are links for every topic. Just as there may be links to dispute every topic. Here is a good thread to post them. An election is coming up, and it pays to make informed choices.

Quite frankly, I am open minded on all of this. Right now, as things are going, I am not advocating any discourse that trys to shoot down the President in these difficult times. But this info is but a part of domestic policy and a track record that needs explanation. Bush is President for the next 2 years and I hope by then he will have solved his foreign policy problems. I will support him until the time comes that he no longer is viable. That may never be, or we may find it in the next 2 years. We'll see.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Sooo, this is a bash Bush or a bash the Republicans thread, right?

 

[N8Magic]

I'm sure that most of these promises were made pre September 11th. Wars (be it on terrorism or otherwise) cost a lot of money, not to mention that the economy took a major hit that day.

A slower economy = lower tax revenue, which means less money to spend on campaign promises.

 

[Tripleshot]

HappyPuppy

No it isn't . It is 9 domestic kitchen table topics to discuss and try and justify in or out as an issue that inflence your vote in the 2002 election cycle. It is the only record available, and Bush happens to be the head guy now. I don't think Clinton or Gore or Carter or Kennedy or Johnson has anything to do with what is impacting you and your wallet and security today.


Try and focus. The topic is about saying one thing and doing another. Bush said things where going to be done and now we know just what was done. How difficult can that be to understand?

 

[HappyPuppy]

How difficult is it for you to understand that we have gone from a peacetime economy to a wartime economy? We are at war, my friend. Wars cost money, more money than the government is going to take in. Yes, we are going to experience deficit spending again. This is not the fault of the current administration or his party, this is the fault of a worldwide network of terrorists who have vowed to never stop until every American is dead.

 

[Tripleshot]

>>I'm sure that most of these promises were made pre September 11th.<<

Valid point. But explain then the continuing talk of tax cuts while he has expanded the federal government larger than ant timein recent history? These talks of tax cuts are post 9/11. All the while the SS fund gets raped, and the deficit gets larger, for my grandchildren and their children to have to deal with.

I believe the mantra of the republican party was a new government, smaller and more responsive to the needs of the people. Check his record. Its in the first post of this thread.

( I haven't even started on a whole year of discussion about how the US should not be in the nation building business, ala every conservative right winger on this board. Check what the US is in the middle of doing now, BIG TIME.)

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

<< Reps make them, Dems keep them. >>



This is for the most part true. But when a Democrat keeps one of his promises, that old saying 'be careful what you wish for, you just might get it' usually fits right with how it is kept.

 

[Tripleshot]

>>>How difficult is it for you to understand that we have gone from a peacetime economy to a wartime economy?<<<

Its not difficult at all if you have supporting facts. Right now that is your assumption. Many times in a wartime economy, production increases and prosperity follows. Do you see any signs of that happening?

We have the highest unemployement in 7 years, over a million people lost their jobs since republicans took over the executive and legislative branches. I thought those tax cuts were supposed to spur the economy? What really happened? You are going to blame that on terrorists? Did a terrorist close down your job, your school, or just your brain?