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Every four or eight years we get a new leader. Change has not happened. We had an election and the right guy won. Change might have happened, but it’s too early to know. We all have to pay more attention now, not less, so that the President can do what needs to be done. One good way to stay in tune with the new administration is on their website. It’s new, but looks like it could be a real leadership tool.
Suggested usage: press play, wait 30 seconds, read the post.
George W. Bush: U.S. President (2001 – 2009)
Employment and Earnings, 1998 – 2008 Reported by U.S. Dept of Labor Statistics
U.S. Unemployment, 1998 – 2008 Reported by U.S. Dept of Labor Statistics
Bump visible in both graphs is the war expenditure economic bump.
U.S. Intelligence Gathering Policy – reported on ABCnews.
Karl: And on KSM, one of those tactics, of course, widely reported was waterboarding. And that seems to be a tactic we no longer use. Even that you think was appropriate?
Cheney: I do.
US Casualties – Iraq War (2003-present) reported on wikipedia
Combat: 3,681
Total: 4,221
Wounded: 43,993
Death of the Kyoto Protocol, reported on About.com
First article
George Bush made campaign promises in 2000 to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. However, in 2001, George Bush pulled the US out of the Kyoto accords as one of the first acts of his presidency. Bush dismissed Kyoto Protocol as too costly, describing it as “an unrealistic and ever-tightening straitjacket.”
Second article
Under its own provisions, the Kyoto Protocol cannot take effect unless and until it gains ratification by those industrialized countries responsible for at least 55 percent of the world’s total annual production of greenhouse gasses.
Russia puts out 17 percent of those emissions; the United States 36 percent, and the United States has already withdrawn former President Clinton’s provisional ratification of the Protocol.
Income Distribution - reported on wikipedia (an old problem, worse. better since the hedge fund dive, but worse.)
and on, and on, and on…..
Turns out I know at least one person in the new administration… Best of luck to all of the Obamanauts: we’re with you, and we’re counting on you.
