Prior to Reagan’s
election in 1980, federal laws and taxes had weakened the private sector
economy. By ignoring the US Constitution (as written) the federal government
had adopted aditional socialist programs and expanded its reach far beyond its
original “enumerated powers”.
After 1980, the Reagan
tax cuts reignited the US economy just in time to be able to develop
electronics beyond its earlier limitations.
Many traditional US industries had already been off-shored by the
Democrats and Liberal Republicans and the rest were on the loading dock.
The Cold War with the
USSR was ending, because the Soviets had run out of money. Gorbachev had
concluded that the USSR needed to down-size in order to survive. Reagan
supported the independence of Poland and initiated the “Star-Wars” defense
system to encouraged Gorbachev’s reform-minded plans. Reagan’s extra spending
on defense resulted in the development of the “next generation” of military
equipment.
George HW Bush was the
product of the Deep State as it developed through the 1960s. Bush had moved
from Maine to Texas and served as US House Rep from 1966 to 1970. In 1971 he
was appointed Ambassador to the UN. In 1973. He became Chairman of the
Republican National Committee. In 1974.
In 1975 Bush was
appointed Chief of the US Liaison Office in China and in 1976 he became CIA
Director. In 1980, he was put forward to run for Vice President as Reagan’s
running-mate. They won the election and Bush served as Vice President of the US
from 1981 to 1989. He had served 4 years in Congress, I year as GOP Chair and 5
years in the Deep State.
Bush ran for President
of the US in 1988, won and served until 1992.
He worked with Russia to dismantle in 1989 and conducted a stunning
defeat of Iraq in 1990. Bush got caught in a 3-way race with Clinton and Ross
Perot in 1992 and lost to Clinton.
The bad news was that
he doubled immigration in 1989 and signed on to UN Agenda 21 in 1992 to support
the global warming hoax, open borders, off-shoring jobs and NAFTA. He also
signed all of Ted Kennedy’s Bills and started another round of excessive,
unnecessary regulation.
His strength and his
weakness was that he “got along” with everybody. As a consequence, he returned
control of the federal government to the Liberals. For he was a kindly Liberal Republican. It
will take Trump until 2024 to clean up the messes started by Bush I. The media
is over-covering the Bush I funeral to convince everybody that he was a perfect
President. See bio below:
George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30,
2018) was an American statesman and Republican
Party politician
who served as the 41st President
of the United States from
1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice
President of the United States from
1981 to 1989; he had previously been a U.S.
Representative,
Ambassador, and Director
of Central Intelligence.
During his career in public service, he was known simply as George Bush;
after his eldest son George W. Bush became President of the United
States in 2001, he was referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush
41", or "George Bush Sr".
A scion of
the Bush family, he was born in Milton,
Massachusetts, to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following
the attack
on Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the United
States Navy on his
18th birthday, and became one of the youngest aviators in the U.S. Navy. He served
until September 1945, and then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his
family to West Texas, where he entered the oil business and became a millionaire by the
age of 40 in 1964.
Soon after
founding his own oil company, Bush became involved in politics. He was defeated
in his first election, for the U.S. Senate in 1964,
but won election to the House of Representatives from Texas's
7th district in 1966. He was re-elected in 1968 but was defeated for election
to the Senate again in 1970.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Bush as Ambassador to the United Nations, and in 1973, Bush became the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The following year, President Gerald Ford appointed Bush as Chief of the US Liaison Office in China and
later made Bush the Director
of Central Intelligence.
Bush ran for president in 1980 and was defeated in the Republican primary by Ronald Reagan, who chose him as his running mate in
his successful bid for presidency. During his eight-year tenure as Vice
President, Bush headed task forces on deregulation and the war on drugs.
Bush
ran a successful campaign in 1988, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis, becoming the first incumbent vice president in 152 years to be
elected president. Foreign policy drove the Bush
presidency: military
operations were
conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf; the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Bush
also signed the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
which created a trade bloc consisting of the United
States, Canada, and Mexico.
Domestically,
Bush reneged on a
1988 campaign promise and
signed a bill to increase taxes. In the wake of a weak recovery from an economic
recession and the
diminution of foreign policy as a major issue in a post-Cold War political climate, he lost the 1992
presidential election to
Democrat Bill Clinton.
After
leaving office in 1993, Bush was active—often alongside his former
opponent Bill Clinton—in humanitarian activities. With George
W. Bush's victory in the 2000 presidential election, Bush and his son became
the second father–son pair to serve as president, following John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Bush's second son, Jeb Bush, served as the 43rd Governor of Florida and sought the
Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
Bush died on
November 30, 2018, at the age of 94 years and 171 days. He was
the third-longest-lived vice president at the time of his death, and has
the current distinction of being the longest-lived president in
U.S. history.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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