The Bush-"Legacy"

[Mr. Shaman]

"Some 14,700 rich Americans, worried about a stepped-up U.S. crackdown on offshore tax cheats, have turned themselves in under the government's amnesty program.

The Internal Revenue Service amnesty program, which ended in October, offered reduced penalties for voluntarily disclosing previously undeclared foreign holdings. It is part of a broader effort by the United States and other authorities to crack down on tax evasion.

Of the nearly 15,000 newly disclosed accounts, many involved bank accounts in Switzerland and Europe, but assets were hidden in more than 70 countries.

Participation in the IRS program was "unprecedented" and the final number was nearly double the agency's estimate in October, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman told reporters in a telephone briefing."

"VERY wise choice, everyone."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"At exactly two minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan. Government officials and computer scientists around the globe held their breath. Was this the beginning of a massive Y2K computer meltdown? Actually, no. It was an isolated event, one of a handful of glitches to occur (including the failure of 500 slot machines at two racetracks in Delaware) as the sun rose on the new decade. The dreaded millennial meltdown never happened.

Instead, it was the American Dream that was about to dim. Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. We're still weeks away from the end of '09, but it's not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"VERY wise choice, everyone."​

"The new willingness of governments to pay big reward$ "has changed the game," says Blum, a longtime advisor to Congress and the IRS on the offshore world. "In the Caribbean there are people working in these offshore banks for next to nothing." Now they have a way to get rich.

Despite IRS processing that Blum describes as "slow as molasses," he expects the Liechtenstein whistle-blower to start getting reward money next year. Long term, he says, the informant law's "potential, particularly internationally, is huge."

 

[Gipper]

Go to the four minute mark. Now please tell me liberals do not believe what this fool said.

 

[Pandora]

Go to the four minute mark. Now please tell me liberals do not believe what this fool said.

So in a nut shell, this idiot thinks the American troops are doing what Hitler did?

Enough to make you want to get sick...


Thanks for the post, I would not have known about this if you didnt.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

How delusional can someone (including The Idiot Son) possibly be, to attempt "recreating" a legacy that's already on public-record??!!!

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I guess.....if there are people stupid-enough to swallow what's on FAUX Noise, there'll always be enough nut-jobs (out there) who'll watch Bush T.V.!!!!

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[Mr. Shaman]

"Certain decades shape the country's political life for generations by leaving behind an era to embrace or, at least as often, to scorn.

The 1960s were definitely such a decade. The 1930s qualify, as do the 1980s. But as important as all these periods have been, their significance may be dwarfed by the reckless and squandered decade that is, mercifully, endinghttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy.../AR2009123002187.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns.

I'm afraid that the past 10 years will be seen as a time when the United States badly lost its way by using our military power carelessly, misunderstanding the real challenges to our long-term security and pursuing domestic policies that constrained our options for the future while needlessly threatening our prosperity.

It should not surprise us that the battle for the future will be shaped by struggles over the past. How often over the past 40 years have conservatives defended their policies in the name of rolling back "the excesses of the '60s"? For even longer, liberals were charged with being locked into "the New Deal approaches of the 1930s." Liberals, in turn, pointed proudly to both eras as times of unparalleled social advance.

As for the 1980s, they remain a positive reference point for conservatives even as progressives condemn the Age of Reagan for opening the way to the deregulatory excesses that led to the recent downturn.

Americans instinctively recoil at living too much in the past. Yet we have no choice but to reach a settlement about the meaning of the last 10 years. It is the only way we will successfully turn the next 10 into a decade of renewal."

HELLUVA WRITE-UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Get this boy a NOBEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

This definitely, needs repeating!!!!!!

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[Mr. Shaman]

.....And, Lil' Dumbya insisted everyone-ELSE needed to "...listen to the Generals."???????

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"Now outside of government, members of the George W. Bush administration are desperate to polish their turbulent legacy. However, a history of "Operation Enduring Freedom" being prepared by the Army would seem to contradict their version of the war on Afghanistan.

Contrary to repeated claims that the Iraq war did not deprive Afghan forces of necessary resources, the Army's history shows that the Bush administration "hamstrung" forces in the country, according to The New York Times.

"A Different Kind of War", to be published later this year, was written by seven historians at the Army's Combat Studies Institute. It is the first report of its kind, giving an official stamp on events which transpired between October 2001 and September 2005. The Times obtained the 400-page manuscript and posted it online.

In his remarks to soldiers at West Point, President Obama correctly noted that when commanders in Afghanistan asked for reinforcements, they "did not arrive." The line generated a rebuke from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who called the president's assessment "a bald misstatement."

However, "after the invasion [of Iraq] started in March 2003", the history says, the United States clearly 'had a very limited ability to increase its forces' in Afghanistan," the Times noted."

Could it possibly BE any-more-embarrassing, than to be a Republican, presently??????

 

[top gun]

The Bush legacy?

Lying wrapped in stupidity covered in cruelty.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Bush legacy?

Lying wrapped in stupidity covered in cruelty.

Yeah, I'd say his options are narrowing-down (more-and-more) to stumblin'-around, drunk...down on the Crawford Hog Farm.

Hell....he could wheel his double-wide/comic-book-filled Library, down there....and, whittle souvenirs for tourists!

 

[PLC1]

Yeah, I'd say his options are narrowing-down (more-and-more) to stumblin'-around, drunk...down on the Crawford Hog Farm.

Hell....he could wheel his double-wide/comic-book-filled Library, down there....and, whittle souvenirs for tourists!

OMG! Shaman, you sound like a broken record! Don't you ever get tired of bashing the ex president? I mean, I was never a fan of his either, but he hasn't been in power for going on a year now. C'mon! Let's get a new subject already.

 

[ASPCA4EVER]

OMG! Shaman, you sound like a broken record! Don't you ever get tired of bashing the ex president? I mean, I was never a fan of his either, but he hasn't been in power for going on a year now. C'mon! Let's get a new subject already.

WOW...with all of the material that we have access to {8 years worth...8 loooong horrendous/life altering years} and a continual body count of 4,500 plus {not counting the thousands of wounded}...seems rather frivolous of us to just "NOT KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT"

And with all of those 'talking heads' from that administration that just can't seem to STHU...why we get force feed their opinions on a daily basis...so why should we ignore little Georgie and his tribe of inept liars?

 

[always]

OMG! Shaman, you sound like a broken record! Don't you ever get tired of bashing the ex president? I mean, I was never a fan of his either, but he hasn't been in power for going on a year now. C'mon! Let's get a new subject already.

YES, I agree, G.W.BUSH turned into a "PROGRESSIVE" politically in his second term and paved the way for Obama, a more dangerous Progressive than BUSH.

Another Point, It is sad to see the HOUSE OF POITICS , POLITICAL FORUM is tainted with a BIASED MODERATOR like BUNZ. This guy is so Left Wing biased that he calls post favoring other views than his "rants", then proceeds to delete that post, sometimes changing the poster words as he calls it "ranting." Yet, we have this RANTING BUSH BASHER named SHAMAN who CONSTANTLY POST his stories calling Bush everything nasty and ole BUNZ never once ever DELETES his GARBAGE. THIS FORM MUST INSIST ON FAIRNESS BY MODERATORS. FREE SPEECH MUST BE OBSERVED BUNZ BE DAMNED! BIASED MODERATORS WHO ONLY SEE AND ALLOW THEIR VIEWS ARE WORTHLESS TO ANY HONEST FORUM. WE MUST ALL RESPECT THE RIGHT OF OTHERS TO PRESENT THEIR THOUGHTS IN A RESPECTFUL AND MORAL WAY. NO OBSCENITY PLEASE,Nothing is more OBSCENE THAN BANNING ANOTHERS THOUGHT SIMPLE BECAUSE A MODERATOR DOES NOT LIKE THE POLITICS! I MUST SAY The VAST MAJORITY OF THE MODERATORS ARE VERY TALENTED AND PROFESSIONAL IN THE WAY THE ALLOW DIFFERENT THOUGHTS TO BE EXPRESSED.BUT IT TAKES ONLY ONE TO DESTROY A FREE FORUM. WE HAVE THAT ONE!

 

[dogtowner]

OMG! Shaman, you sound like a broken record! Don't you ever get tired of bashing the ex president? I mean, I was never a fan of his either, but he hasn't been in power for going on a year now. C'mon! Let's get a new subject already.

One trick pony, not unlike the president. And everyone else in the administration it seems.