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George W.
Bu$h Resume
By: Kelley Kramer
I recently had
an email exchange with a right-winger from my local newspaper, and of course
the war with
My first response
was ... So your guy is better than a third world dictator, Wow! what an accomplishment! Does he put that on his resume?
And with that in
mind, I started wondering ... what would a George W. Bush resume look like
exactly?
Listed below is
what I came up with,
Kelley Kramer
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George W. Bush Resume
Past work experience:
- Ran for congress and
lost.
- Produced a
- Bought an oil
company, but couldn't find any oil in
- Bought the Texas
Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer
money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
- With fathers help
(and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments: Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made - Became president
after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments as president:
- Attacked and took
over two countries.
- Spent the surplus and
bankrupted the treasury.
- Shattered record for
biggest annual deficit in history.
- Set economic record
for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
- Set all-time record
for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
- First president in
decades to execute a federal prisoner.
- First president in
- First year in office
set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in
- After taking the
entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security
failure in US history.
- Set the record for
most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in
- In my first two years
in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
- Cut unemployment
benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in
- Set the all-time
record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
- Appointed more
convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in
- Set the record for
the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent
of television.
- Signed more laws and
executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in
- Presided over the
biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when
corruption was revealed.
- Presided over the
highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national
reserves as past presidents have.
- Cut healthcare
benefits for war veterans.
- Set the all-time
record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to
protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against
any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
- Dissolved more
international treaties than any president in
- My presidency is the
most secretive and un-accountable of any in
- Members of my cabinet
are the richest of any administration in
- First president in
- Presided over the
biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the
history of the world.
- First president in
- Created the largest
government department bureaucracy in the history of the
- Set the all-time
record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than
any president in
- First president in
- First president in
- Removed more checks
and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than
any presidential administration in
- Rendered the entire
United Nations irrelevant.
- Withdrew from the
World Court of Law.
- Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default
no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
- First president in
- My biggest life-time
campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy
frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
- Spent more money on
polls and focus groups than any president in
- First president in
- First president to
run and hide when the
- First
- Took the biggest
world sympathy for the
- With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile
Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
- Fist
- First
- Changed
- Set all-time record
for number of administration appointees who violated
- Failed to fulfill my
pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
- Failed to capture the
anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the
United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero
suspects.
- In the 18 months
following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public
investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the
- Removed more freedoms
and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in
- In a little over two
years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most
divided the
- Entered office with
the strongest economy in
Records and References:
At least one conviction for drunk driving in
AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the
military during a time of war.
Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug
use.
Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended
regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for
public review.
For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of
the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
Bush by numbers: Four years of double
standards
By Graydon Carter
03 September 2004
1 Number of Bush administration public
statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September
2001 that mentioned al-Qaida.
104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National
security and defense in the same period that mentioned
101 Number of Bush administration public statements on National
security and defense in the same period that mentioned missile defense.
65 Number of Bush administration public statements on National
security and defense in the same period that mentioned weapons of mass
destruction.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Osama bin Laden in his three
State of the Union addresses.
73 Number of times that Bush mentioned terrorism or terrorists in
his three State of the Union addresses.
83 Number of times Bush mentioned
$1m Estimated value of a painting the Bush Presidential Library in
College Station, Texas, received from Prince Bandar, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to
the United States and Bush family friend.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned Saudi
1,700 Percentage increase between 2001 and
2002 of Saudi Arabian spending on public relations in the
79 Percentage of the 11 September hijackers
who came from
3 Number of 11 September hijackers whose entry visas came through
special US-Saudi "Visa Express" programme.
140 Number of Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family,
evacuated from
14 Number of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agents
assigned to track down 1,200 known illegal immigrants in the
$3m Amount the White House was willing to grant the 9/11
Commission to investigate the 11 September attacks.
$0 Amount approved by George Bush to hire more
INS special agents.
$10m Amount Bush cut from the INS's
existing terrorism budget.
$50m Amount granted to the commission that looked into the
$5m Amount a 1996 federal commission was given to study legalized
gambling.
7 Number of Arabic linguists fired by the
George Bush: Military man
1972 Year that Bush walked away from his pilot duties in the Texas
National Guard, Nearly two years before his six-year obligation was up.
$3,500 Reward a group of veterans offered in 2000 for anyone who
could confirm Bush's
600-700 Number of guardsmen who were in Bush's unit during that
period.
0 Number of guardsmen from that period who came forward with
information about Bush's guard service.
0 Number of minutes that President Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney,
the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the assistant
Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, the former
chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle,
and the White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove the main proponents of the war
in Iraq served in combat (combined).
0 Number of principal civilian or Pentagon
staff members who planned the war who have immediate family members serving in
uniform in
8 Number of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives
who have a child serving in the military.
10 Number of days that the Pentagon spent investigating a soldier
who had called the President "a joke" in a letter to the editor of a
Newspaper.
46 Percentage increase in sales between 2001
and 2002 of GI Joe figures (children's toys).
Ambitious warrior
2 Number of Nations that George Bush has attacked and taken over
since coming into office.
130 Approximate Number of countries (out of a total of 191
recognized by the United Nations) with a
43 Percentage of the entire world's military spending that the
$401.3bn Proposed military budget for 2004.
Saviour of
1983 The year in which Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan's special
envoy to the
2.5 Number of hours after Rumsfeld learnt that Osama bin Laden was
a suspect in the 11 September attacks that he brought up reasons to
"hit"
237 Minimum number of misleading statements
on
10m Estimated number of people worldwide
who took to the streets on 21 February 2003, in opposition to the invasion of
$2bn Estimated monthly cost of
$4bn Actual monthly cost of the
$15m Amount of a contract awarded to an American firm to build a
cement factory in
$80,000 Amount an Iraqi firm spent (using Saddam's confiscated
funds) to build the same factory, after delays prevented the American firm from
starting it.
2000 Year that Cheney said his policy as CEO of Halliburton oil services company was "we wouldn't do anything in
$4.7bn Total value of contracts awarded to Halliburton in
$680m Estimated value of
$2.8bnValue of Bechtel Corp contracts in
$120bn Amount the war and its aftermath are projected to cost for
the 2004 fiscal year.
35 Number of countries to which the
92 Percentage of
60 Percentage of
55 Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who were
unemployed before the war.
80 Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who are
unemployed a Year after the war.
0 Number of American combat deaths in
37 Death toll of US soldiers in
0 Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home that the Bush
administration has permitted to be photographed.
0 Number of memorial services for the returned dead that Bush has
attended since the beginning of the war.
A soldier's best friend
40,000 Number of soldiers in
$60m Estimated cost of outfitting those
40,000 soldiers with Interceptor vests.
62 Percentage of gas masks that army investigators discovered did Not work properly in autumn 2002.
90 Percentage of detectors which give early warning of a
biological weapons attack found to be defective.
87 Percentage of Humvees in
Making the country safer
$3.29 Average amount allocated per person Nationwide in the first
round of homeland security grants.
$94.40 Amount allocated per person for homeland security in
$36 Amount allocated per person for homeland security in
$17 Amount allocated per person in
$5.87 Amount allocated per person in
$77.92 Amount allocated per person in
76 Percentage of 215 cities surveyed by the US Conference of
Mayors in early 2004 that had yet to receive a dime in federal homeland
security assistance for their first-response units.
5 Number of major
22,600 Number of planes carrying unscreened cargo that fly into
5 Estimated Percentage of US air cargo
that is screened, including cargo transported on passenger planes.
95 Percentage of foreign goods that arrive in
the
2 Percentage of those goods subjected to thorough inspection.
$5.5bnEstimated cost to secure fully US ports over the Next
decade.
$0 Amount Bush allocated for port security in 2003.
$46m Amount the Bush administration has budgeted for port security
in 2005.
15,000 Number of major chemical facilities in the
100 Number of US chemical plants where a
terrorist act could endanger the lives of more than one million people.
0 Number of new drugs or vaccines against "priority
pathogens" listed by the Centres for Disease
Control that have been developed and introduced since 11 September 2001.
Giving a hand up to the advantaged
$10.9m Average wealth of the members of Bush's
original 16-person cabinet.
75 Percentage of Americans unaffected by
Bush's sweeping 2003 cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
$42,000 Average savings members of Bush's cabinet received in 2003
as a result of cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes.
10 Number of fellow members from the Yale secret society Skull and
Bones that Bush has named to important positions (including the Associate
Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr. and SEC chief Bill Donaldson).
79 Number of Bush's initial 189 appointees who also served in his
father's administration.
A man with a lot of friends
$113m Amount of total hard money the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign received, a record.
$11.5m Amount of hard money raised through the Pioneer programme, the controversial fund-raising process created
for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. (Participants pledged to raise at least
$100,000 by bundling together cheques of up to $1,000
from friends and family. Pioneers were assigned numbers, which were included on
all cheques, enabling the campaign to keep track of
who raised how much.)
George Bush: Money manager
4.7m Number of bankruptcies that were declared during Bush's first
three years in office.
2002 The worst year for major markets since the recession of the
1970s.
$489bn The US trade deficit in 2003, the worst
in history for a single year.
$5.6tr Projected national surplus forecast by the end of the
decade when Bush took office in 2001.
$7.22tr US national debt by mid-2004.
George Bush: Tax cutter
87 Percentage of American families in April 2004 who say they have
felt no benefit from Bush's tax cuts.
39 Percentage of tax cuts that will go to the top 1 per cent of
American families when fully phased in.
49 Percentage of Americans in April 2004 who found that their
taxes had actually gone up since Bush took office.
88 Percentage of American families who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends
taxes.
$30,858 Amount Bush himself saved in taxes in 2003.
Employment tsar
9.3m Number of US unemployed in April 2004.
2.3m Number of Americans who lost their jobs during first three
Years of the Bush administration.
22m Number of jobs gained during
Friend of the poor
34.6m Number of Americans living below the poverty line (1 in 8 of
the population).
6.8m Number of people in the workforce but still classified as
poor.
35m Number of Americans that the government defines as "food
insecure," in other words, hungry.
$300m Amount cut from the federal programme
that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes.
40 Percentage of wealth in the
18 Percentage of wealth in
George Bush And his special friend
$60bn Loss to Enron stockholders, following
the largest bankruptcy in
$205m Amount Enron CEO Kenneth Lay earned from stock option
profits over a four-year period.
$101m Amount Lay made from selling his Enron shares just before
the company went bankrupt.
$59,339 Amount the Bush campaign reimbursed Enron for 14 trips on
its corporate jet during the 2000 campaign.
30 Length of time in months between Enron's collapse and Lay (whom
the President called "
George Bush: Lawman
15 Average number of minutes Bush spent reviewing capital
punishment cases while governor of
46 Percentage of Republican federal judges when Bush came to
office.
57 Percentage of Republican federal judges
after three years of the Bush administration.
33 Percentage of the $15bn Bush pledged to fight Aids in
The Civil libertarian
680 Number of suspected al-Qaida members that the
42 Number of nationalities of those detainees at
22 Number of hours prisoners were handcuffed, shackled, and made
to wear surgical masks, earmuffs, and blindfolds during their flight to
32 Number of confirmed suicide attempts by
24 Number of prisoners in mid-2003 being monitored by
psychiatrists in
A health-conscious president
43.6m Number of Americans without health insurance by the end of
2002 (more than 15 per cent of the population).
2.4m Number of Americans who lost their health insurance during
Bush's first year in office.
Environmentalist
$44m Amount the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign and the Republican
National Committee received in contributions from the fossil fuel, chemical,
timber, and mining industries.
200 Number of regulation rollbacks downgrading or weakening
environmental laws in Bush's first three years in office.
31 Number of Bush administration appointees
who are alumni of the energy industry (includes four cabinet secretaries, the
six most powerful White House officials, and more than 20 other high-level
appointees).
50 Approximate number of policy changes and regulation rollbacks
injurious to the environment that have been announced by the Bush
administration on Fridays after 5pm, a time that makes it all but impossible
for news organizations to relay the information to the widest possible
audience.
50 Percentage decline in Environmental
Protection Agency enforcement actions against polluters under Bush's watch.
34 Percentage decline in criminal penalties for environmental
crimes since Bush took office.
50 Percentage decline in civil penalties for environmental crimes
since Bush took office.
$6.1m Amount the EPA historically valued each human life when
conducting economic analyses of proposed regulations.
$3.7m Amount the EPA valued each human life when conducting analyses
of proposed regulations during the Bush administration.
0 Number of times Bush mentioned global warming, clean air, clean
water, pollution or environment in his 2004 State of the Union speech. His
father was the last president to go through an entire State of the Union
address without mentioning the environment.
1 Number of paragraphs devoted to global warming in the EPA's
600-page "Draft Report on the Environment" presented in 2003.
68 Number of days after taking office that Bush decided Not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty
to reduce greenhouse gases by roughly 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012.
The
1 The rank of the
25 Percentage of overall worldwide carbon dioxide emissions the
53 Number of days after taking office that Bush reneged on his
campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
14 Percentage carbon dioxide emissions will increase over the next
10 years under Bush's own global-warming plan (an increase of 30 per cent above
their 1990 levels).
408 Number of species that could be extinct by 2050 if the
global-warming trend continues.
5 Number of years the Bush administration said in 2003 that global
warming must be further studied before substantive action could be taken.
62 Number of members of Cheney's 63-person Energy Task Force with
ties to corporate energy interests.
0 Number of environmentalists asked to attend Cheney's Energy Task
Force meetings.
6 Number of months before 11 September that Cheney's Energy Task
Force investigated
2 Percentage of the world's population that is British.
2 Percentage of the world's oil used by
5 Percentage of the world's population that is American.
25 Percentage of the world's oil used by
63 Percentage of oil the
24,000 Estimated number of premature
deaths that will occur under Bush's Clear Skies initiative.
300 Number of Clean Water Act violations by
the mountaintop-mining industry in 2003.
750,000 Tons of toxic waste the
$3.8bn Amount in the Superfund trust fund for toxic site clean-ups
in 1995, the Year "polluter pays" fees expired.
$0m Amount of uncommitted dollars in the Superfund trust fund for
toxic site clean-ups in 2003.
270 Estimated number of court decisions citing federal Negligence
in endangered-species protection that remained unheeded during the first year
of the Bush administration.
100 Percentage of those decisions that Bush
then decided to allow the government to ignore indefinitely.
68.4 Average Number of species added to the Endangered and
Threatened Species list each year between 1991 and 2000.
0 Number of endangered species voluntarily added by the Bush
administration since taking office.
50 Percentage of screened workers at Ground Zero who now suffer
from long-term health problems, almost half of whom don't have health
insurance.
78 Percentage of workers at Ground Zero who
now suffer from lung ailments.
88 Percentage of workers at Ground Zero who Now
suffer from ear, nose, or throat problems.
22 Asbestos levels at Ground Zero were 22 times higher than the
levels in
Image booster for the
2,500 Number of public-diplomacy officers employed by the State
Department to further the image of the
1,200 Number of public-diplomacy officers employed by the State
Department to further
4 Rank of the United States among countries considered to be the
greatest threats to world peace according to a 2003 Pew Global Attitudes study
(Israel, Iran, and North Korea were considered more dangerous; Iraq was
considered less dangerous).
$66bn Amount the
$23.8bn Amount the
85 Percentage of Indonesians who had an unfavourable image of the
Second-party endorsements
90 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 26 September 2001.
67 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 26 September 2002.
54 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 30 September, 2003.
50 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president on 15 October 2003.
49 Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was
handling his job as president in May 2004.
More like the French than he would care to admit
28 Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2003, the
second-longest vacation of any president in
13 Number of vacation days the average American receives each
Year.
28 Number of vacation days Bush took in August 2001, the month he
received a 6 August Presidential Daily Briefing headed "Osama bin Laden
Determined to Strike US Targets."
500 Number of days Bush has spent all or part of his time away
from the White House at his ranch in
No fool when it comes to the press
11 Number of press conferences during his first three Years in
office in which Bush referred to questions as being "trick" ones.
Factors in his favour
3 Number of companies that control the
52 Percentage of votes cast during the 2002 midterm elections that
were recorded by Election Systems & Software, the largest voting-technology
firm, a big Republican donor.
29 Percentage of votes that will be cast via
computer voting machines that don't produce a paper record.
17On 17 November 2001, The Economist printed a correction for
having said George Bush was properly elected in 2000.
$113m Amount raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000
campaign, the most in American electoral history.
$185m Amount raised by the Bush-Cheney 2004
re-election campaign, to the end of March 2004.
$200m Amount that the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign expects to raise by November 2004.
268 Number of Bush-Cheney fund-raisers who had earned Pioneer
status (by raising $100,000 each) as of March 2004.
187 Number of Bush-Cheney fund-raisers who had
earned Ranger status (by raising $200,000 each) as of March 2004.
$64.2mThe Amount Pioneers and Rangers had raised
for Bush-Cheney as of March 2004.
85 Percentage of Americans who can't Name the
Chief Justice of the
69 Percentage of Americans who believed the White House's claims
in September 2003 that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 11
September attacks.
34 Percentage of Americans who believed in June 2003 that Saddam's
"weapons of mass destruction" had been found.
22 Percentage of Americans who believed in May 2003 that Saddam
had used his WMDs on US forces.
85 Percentage of American young adults who
cannot find
30 Percentage of American young adults who
cannot find the
75 Percentage of American young adults who
don't know the population of the
53 Percentage of Canadian young adults who
don't know the population of the
11 Percentage of American young adults who
cannot find the
30 Percentage of Americans who believe that
"politics and government are too complicated to understand."
Another factor in his favour
70m Estimated number of Americans who
describe themselves as Evangelicals who accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour and who interpret the Bible as the direct word of
God.
23m Number of Evangelicals who voted for Bush in 2000.
50m Number of voters in total who voted for Bush in 2000.
46 Percentage of voters who describe
themselves as born-again Christians.
5 Number of states that do not use the word "evolution"
in public school science courses.
