I LOVE Free Republic, but I hate these threads that bash George Bush. He was not perfect, but at least I had no doubt that he loved this country and wanted the best for it - unlike Obama whose every move has been and will be to destroy America. I agree that Jeb should not even think about running for POTUS, but I would much rather have GW and Laura in the WH than the two interlopers who currently reside there!
Good post.
GWB will always be a stand-up guy in my book.
Only some FReepers are without fault....
To call Bush’s FICA investment scheme hare-brained would be to give it too much credit for having been thought through at all. In no way would it have resulted in the government’s liability being reduced, and would simply been one more massive bail out in 2008-2009.
We solve the entitlement problem in a few steps.
First, Medicare and indigent senior Medicaid inflation must be zeroed out on a per-capita basis and eventually become negative on a per-capita basis such that total outlays can stabilize. The senior citizen health care system must be made MUCH, MUCH cheaper.
Second, disability must go through a 1996-style reform. Despite what (might have been) the best of intentions, SSI and SSDI have become a welfare program with all of the ills and negative incentives of the worst of welfare systems.
Third, social security retirement income should have a reform of the cost-of-living calculator.
Can’t cover up the truth about Bush’s liberalism, his big spending or his big government tendencies.
To say that one would prefer Bush in office versus Obama is merely to choose between the lesser of two evils (which is the former, to be clear). Never mind to compare apples to oranges since neither man ran against the other. Neither is an “interloper”, I would go so far as to say, since ultimately it is God that chooses our leaders (Romans 13:1).