We offer our sympathy and condolences to the Bush family and friends on the passing of President George H.W. Bush (1924-2018). We admired his character and service to the country. We also want to recognize President George W. Bush for his beautiful and heartfelt eulogy of Dec. 5, 2018. Well done.
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The Bush Stock Market Collapse
Here’s a BushToll nugget that pretty much speaks for itself… documentation of the historic stock market crash that occurred under George W. Bush. When George W. Bush took office on Jan. 20, 2001, the S&P 500 stock market index stood at $1,342.54. The day President Bush left office, it was $805.22, a drop of 40 percent
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fared a bit better. It dropped only 25 percent. Sadly, the tech-heavy NASDAQ shed 48 percent of its value on President Bush’s watch.
As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words:
The George W. Bush Job Creation Failure
UPDATED 2/5/2017 with revised BLS data through the end of Barack Obama’s second term.
When it comes to job creation, George W. Bush produced the worst results—a one percent increase over eight years—of any president since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) started keeping records in 1939.
Bush Left Obama a $1.2 Trillion Deficit
When we hear the partisan whining and complaining that President Obama has exploded the Federal budget deficit, it’s important to understand the budget train wreck he inherited from the previous administration. At the beginning of Jan. 2009, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its report The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2009 to 2019.
Bush Failed to Keep America Safe
When asked about George W. Bush’s greatest achievement, Bush hagiographers are quick to claim that “He kept us safe.” And when we ponder that sentiment, we can only wonder at the human capacity for self-delusion, especially when it was on Bush’s watch that the U.S. suffered the worst attack on its soil since Pearl Harbor.