One is issue is about 50% which leaves one other. And how is BUsh pro-big government and pro-big part of daily life? Because he signed a budget with increased spending? And daily life? How?
strong dollar policy
Where? It's a common boogeyman of the manufacturing industry even though analysts are attributing it not to policy but to price adjustments, wondering if they are growth adjustments, and an increase in foreign transfer of investments back to the dollar. But economists argue opinion and NRO has a good one by Kudlow on the weakening of the inflation hawks arguement. Essentially, pulling out of a bad recession bodes well for Bush's economic and monetary policies.
amnesty
A straw man. Plenty of threads on that around here. Penalties somehow equal amnesty.
CFR
A big, big, big mistake by Bush. He fell flat there.
Sarbanes-Oaxley
How does a law that requires CEOs to attest that their financial reports are accurate not conservative. That act makes lying in published financial reports an act of fraud. Considering the amount of regulation that the DEms were getting ready to hurl at corporations, it was a good way to stop the danger.
You must be joking. There is not one facet of life that is not controlled by the federal govt. Education, health care, wages and benefits, roads, railroads - you name it. To top it all of, he hired 80000 workers at the TSA, unionized them, and now they make everyone's life hell in airports. I travel a lot, and every time I have to deal with these incompetent idiots, my blood pressure goes up.
Regarding strong dollar policy, it is the official policy of the Treasury dept. Makes our monetary policy inflexible. We need to further let the dollar fall so it brings some parity with the Yen and the Yuan. I thought Bush got rid of O'Neill so we can get away from the strong dollar policy. The Snowe guy hasn't really changed anything, because now I know the order comes from the very top.
But, Sarbanes-Oaxley is one of the worst laws that Bush has signed. It doesn't affect average Americans so you don't hear a lot of bleep about it, but it is really bad. No one in the right mind would ever sit on the board of any company. The burdens placed on board of directors is very high by this law. It would literally create a bureaucrat class within our economy whose sole purpose would be checking up on board of directors of companies. The enforcement of all the fraud loss regulations would require so much resources from the Justice dept that it would bust another budget. Read Richard Epstein's take on it.