Also on the home front, Bush and Cheney had a vision for all Americans. An America where every man, women and child would hold the reigns of their own fate. In June of 2004, Bush/Cheney launched the Ownership Society. A plan that would allow unqualified Americans to own a home for the first time. Even though, technically, these citizens could not afford their mortgages, Wall Street found a way to prosper so that a trickle down effect would deposit record profits over the nation. Under Dick Cheney's keen eye, wealth and prosperity flowed through America for the first time since the good old days of Ronnie Reagan.
But Bush/Cheney did not stop there. The richest 1 percent of this country were still in need of rescuing. That is why the administration issued Tax Cuts in 2001 and again in 2003. By cutting taxes on investment income and reducing estate taxes, the rich were able to keep more of their money and thereby, stimulate the economy by spending more on private planes, vacation homes, and domestic servants. Households in the top 1 percent of earnings, saw their tax rates drop to 19.6% in 2004 from 24.2% in 2000. It was a good thing Bush/Cheney acted when they did, because little did they know the most severe recession since 1929 was about to hit America.
Without warning, in the fall of 2008, it looked like the US financial system was on the verge of collapse. Luckily, Bush/Cheney already had a capable paladin in place in Henry Paulson. Without asking any questions, the Treasury Secretary and Bush/Cheney handed over $700 billion to the ethical large corporations that were responsible for the slight downtown in the economy at the time. Looking back in hindsight, the administration has been vindicated, because Goldman Sachs, a recipient of $10 billion, just announced a $3.44 billion net income for the second-quarter of 2009.
And perhaps the most substantial contribution Dick Cheney made to our country during his tenure, was his vision for a concentration camp for detainees of the War on Terror. Strategically out of reach of international sanctions, including the Geneva Convention, the Bush/Cheney administration was able to hold and torture approximately 750 detainees without any oversight what-so-ever. Not surprising, this cornerstone of American imperialism is under scrutiny from the left and is at serious risk of being dismantled forever.
The list of accomplishments goes on and on. However, they are all in jeopardy of being reversed by Barack Obama and his regime. The Obama Administration is hell bent on stopping America’s Manifest Destiny and derailing the locomotive of progress Bush and Cheney engineered for eight years. It’s time to put America back on the right track. It’s time to elect Dick Cheney.
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