George W Bush’s Worst Mistakes

In 2000, Bush II won the Presidency.  He should have known how dysfunctional his federal agencies were, but he continued to allow excessive immigration, bad trade agreements, bad executive orders, bad laws and little reform. 

On 9/11/2001, foreign nationals from Saudi Arabia crashed our commercial airliners into the Twin Towers in NY and the Pentagon; passengers on a third plane forced it to crash.  His reactions to this terrorist attack eventually resulted in a doubling of our National Debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. 

Again, because of dysfunctional financial regulators and poor financial industry oversight, bad mortgages were allowed to be securitized.  The result was the 2008 Meltdown that started a recession we are still experiencing. 

Bush II didn’t reinstate the Glass Steagall banking law or repeal the Community Reinvestment Act or HUD antidiscrimination rules that required lenders to make bad loans. His agencies didn’t catch this until the loans started to go bad. These mistakes set up the Democrats to elect Obama, who has all but destroyed the US economy with a National Debt at $19 trillion. Bush II also added to the cost of government and healthcare pharmaceuticals.  Bush II also didn’t stop UN Agenda 21 implementation approved by Bill Clinton in 1993.  He continued an open borders policy and excessive immigration. Bush II also failed to stop the off-shoring of US jobs.

To his credit, Bush II was no fan of the UN and pretty much ignored it publically. He was also not a fan of government controlled healthcare or European Socialism. He was popular with the military, but left the country in a weakened state.

He would have been better off pursuing the 9/11 terrorists with good intelligence and special ops and not waged ground wars in Afghanistan or Iraq.  He should have shut down visas from the Middle East and stopped Middle East immigration in 2001. He should have reduced all immigration below 200,000 per year. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader