· Bush caves to steel industry's threat against retired workers.
· Bush delays reparations to cancer-stricken uranium miners.
· Bush bans workers' unions at Justice Department.
· Bush makes it easier for companies not to hire, or pay retirement packages for older workers.
· Bush kills rule allowing new parents to collect unemployment.
· Bush leaves unemployed workers with no benefits.
· Bush proposes to eliminate overtime for 8 million American workers.
· Bush kills Labor Department report on mass layoffs.
· Over 3 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.
· Bush proposes worker permits to illegal aliens, who will take over 65 million dollars out of our economy each year, and millions of low-skilled American laborers out of work.
· Bush has set the all time record for home forclosures in a twelve month period.
"We will defend our allies and our interests."
· Bush creates military database of information on every American.
· Bush gives the military access to student's private, protected records.
· Bush blocks plans to upgrade nation's power grid
"Our public interest depends on private character..and basic fairness…"
· Bush makes it easier for criminals to get federal contracts (i.e., Enron, Haliburton, etc.)
· Bush rejects federal request to review Karl Rove's finances.
· Bush discontinues budget reports to state governors.
· Bush undermines Justice Dept's suits against polluting companies.
· Bush shields missile defense plans from congressional oversight.
· Bush dismisses report from his own administration on global warming.
· Bush pushes through corporate tax breaks without Congressional approval.
· Bush gives oil companies in Iraq blanket immunity from lawsuits.
· Bush awards no-bid contracts to Halliburton and other high donating companies.
Here is a comparison of G.W. Bush's actions in direct relation to the promises he made in his 2001 Inaugural Speech.
"The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise: that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born."
· Bush cuts federal program for women.
· Bush refuses to attend international conference on racism.
· Bush pushes for Constitutional amendment denying gays and lesbians the right to marry.
· Bush cuts White Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach.
"The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools" "Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives."
· Bush defunds "Reading is Fundamental"
· Bush cuts education for military dependents.
· Bush defunds "Teach for America."
· Bush cuts school lunch programs for children.
"Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character…by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations."
· Bush abandons programs to build more fuel efficient cars.
· Bush's war on terror is costing American's 1 billion dollars weekly, the highest federal deficit in U.S. history, to be paid for by our children and grandchildren.
· Bush delays energy assistance to the poor.
· Bush refuses to increase child care funding for welfare mothers.
· Bush tells welfare mothers to find husbands.
· Bu"Where there is suffering, there is duty."
· Bush blocks agreement that would provide cheap drugs to the world's poor.
· Bush cuts pay for soldiers in Iraq.
· Bush dismisses needy military families by proposing cut in military retirement benefits.
· Bush closes down VA medical centers.
· Bush ends program that notifies veterans of the benefits they are entitled to.
"Government has great responsibilities, for public safety…"
· Bush cuts police budgets nationwide.
"…public health…."
· Bush cuts health programs for uninsured.
· Bush attacks privacy of American's medical records.
· Bush blocks the EPA from issuing a warning about asbestos.
· Bush asks court to seal records on vaccines and autism.
· Bush refuses to enforce the Clean Air Act.
· Bush blocks respected scientists from commission on lead standards and appoints lobbyist from the lead industry instead.
· Bush eases nursing home regulations.
"and for civil rights."
· Bush blocks human rights cases from reaching U.S. courts.
· Bush orders the destruction of the Public Information Act.
· Bush cuts funding to the very programs he used in his photo ops.
· Bush has presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
· Bush has set the all time record for most days spent on vacation in any one-year period of any U.S. president.
· Bush sold the September 11 picture to the highest bidder for a Republican fundraiser.
· Bush used funds designated for alternative energy to pay for printing his energy policy.
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