First, I am, like many Americans, better off today than I was in 2000. Aren't you? That's one indication.
Second, for your reading pleasure (up to 2004): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1096125/posts
I frequent the Free Republic often.
Now for the list.
He's thrown a few sops to anti-abortionists but abortion is still legal. He's insulated teachers from accountability for going over the line punishing children. He's mixed religion with governmental funding just to score points with his base...fine.
There is little to discuss about his handling of the economy. His tax cuts ensure the fact that each american carries almost $40,000 of the national debt. The debt grew to 9 trillion dollars. He's tried to kill the most successful gov. program ever, social security, from day one.
He cut the funding for No Child Left Behind...his own program.
He's opened more park land to logging and mining interests than any other president in the history of our country.
The Afghanistan and Iraqi invasions were both illegal ventures in nation-building--something he swore never to do on the campaign trail.
He privatized many gov. functions resulting in billions lost to corruption/unaccountability/incompetence.
He undercut Medicare by removing the gov.'s ability to negotiate lower drug costs--Big Pharma. cleaned up. Not to mention he had the head medicare actuary lie under oath about the cost of his 'improvements'.
Homeland Security is an ineffectual joke.
There's so much more to this man: exposing WMD spies in a time of war just for political gain, spying on americans w/out a warrant, ordering torture,....and generally making the US a worldwide laughing stock, hypocrite and killer.
On the plus side, EGTRRA was good for retirement plans.
