Re: KNOW WHAT YOUR PRESIDENT IS DOING

[Guest guest]

It's not the president STUPID, it's all of the elected officials!!

Just my thoughts!!

Mark from L.A. (Lower Alabama)

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:04:39 EST cavegrl777@... writes:

> What the President has done in his first 6 months

>

> By: Dr. A. Sprintzen Professor of Philosophy Co-Director,

> Institute for Sustainable Development

> C.W. Post College,Long Island University

> 720 Northern Boulevard

> Brookville, NY 11548-1300

> (516)299-3051 fax: (516) 299-4140 dsprintz@...

>

> The First Six Months of W. Bush: Whatever your beliefs, know

> what your President is doing. Here is a list of his work in his

> first

> six months:

>

> * Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically

> engineered

> crops.

> * Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.

> * Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric

> training.

> * Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources.

> * Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in

> drinking water.

> * Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer

> bilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a

> candidate who would readily fire-up his Spanish-speaking skills in

> front of would-be Hispanic voters.

> * Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel

> Islands and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii (San Francisco

> Chronicle, April 6, 2001).

> * Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars

> and trucks.

> * Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's

> ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace

> safety, environmental, and other federal laws.

> * OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out

> letters

> to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national

> monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.

> * Appointed Negroponte--an unindicted high level Iran Contra

> figure--to the post of United Nations ambassador.

> * Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest

> conservation.

> * Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals,

> clinics, and providers of care for people without insurance.

> * Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information

> about

> the potential consequences resulting from chemical plant

> accidents.

> * Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up

> sites on Western public lands.

> * Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program

> for public housing.

> * Proposed to eliminate a federal program designed to help

> communities (and successfully used in Seattle) prepare for natural

> disasters.

> * Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement.

> * Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers.

> * Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which

> encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.

> * Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they

> move from welfare to work.

> * Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage

> to

> federal employees (though it still pays for Viagra).

> * Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.

> * Appointed Otto Reich--an unindicted high level Iran Contra

> figure--to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American

> Affairs.

> * Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million.

> * Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get

> an

> animal placed on the Endangered Species List.

> * Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency

> regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.

> * Repealed work place ergonomic rules designed to improve worker

> health and safety.

> * Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the

> waste gas that contributes to global warming.

> * Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that

> offer abortion counseling with other independent funds.

> * Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and

> Outreach.

> * Nominated Lauriski--ex-mining company executive--to post of

> Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health.

> * O.K.'d Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a

> controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts off

> the

> coast east of Florida.

> * Announced intention to open up Montana's and National

> Forest to oil and drilling.

> * Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would

> technically allow oil and gas drilling " outside " of national

> monuments.

> * Gutted White House AIDS Office.

> * Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate

> safeguards for the environment and workers' rights.

> * Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in

> recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments.

> * Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the

> Interior.

> * Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental

> Quality.

> * Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services program.

> * Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led

> grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana

> wilderness.

> * Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research

> projects.

> * Makes sure convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial

> aid for college, though convicted murderers can.

> * Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.

> * Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco

> company lawsuit.

> * Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to the

> wealthiest 1% of Americans.

> * Signed a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class

> Americans

> to file for bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical

> bills.

> * Appointed a Vice President quoted as saying, " If you want to do

> something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build

> nuclear power plants " (Vice President Dick Cheney on " Meet the

> Press " ).

> * Appointed " There is no gender gap in pay " Roth to the

> Council of Economic Advisers (Boston Globe, March 28, 2001).

> * Appointed Kay Cole --an opponent of affirmative action--to

> direct the Office of Personnel Management.

> * Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of

> child abuse and neglect.

> * Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to

> get

> credit cards.

> * Proposed elimination of the " Reading Is Fundamental " program

> that gives free books to poor children.

> * Is pushing for development of small nuclear weapons to attack

> deeply buried targets--weapons, which would violate the

> Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

> * Proposes to nominate Sutton--attorney responsible for the

> recent case weakening the Americans with Disabilities Act--to

> federal appeals court judgeship.

> * Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of

> national forest from logging and road building.

> * Eliminated funding for the " We the People " education program

> which taught school children about the Constitution, the Bill of

> Rights, and citizenship.

> * Appointed Bolton--who opposes nonproliferation treaties and

> the U.N.--to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and

> International Security.

> * Nominated Fisher--an executive with Monsanto--for the

> number

> two job at the Environmental Protection Agency.

> * Nominated McConnell--leading critic of the separation of

> church and state--to a federal judgeship.

> * Nominated Terrence Boyle--- ardent opponent of civil rights--to a

> federal judgeship.

> * Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high

> mileage cars.

> * Nominated Harvey Pitts--lawyer for teen sex video distributor--to

> head SEC.

> * Nominated Walters--strong opponent of prison drug treatment

> programs--for Drug Czar (Washington Post, May 16, 2001).

> * Nominated J. Giles--an oil and coal lobbyist--for Deputy

> Secretary of the Interior.

> * Nominated Raley--who advocates repealing the Endangered

> Species Act-for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.

> * Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the

> U.S.

> against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves during

> WWII.

> * Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and drug

> abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not

> secular equivalents.

> * Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program for

> low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills.

> * Nominated Ted Olson--who has repeatedly lied about his

> involvement

> with the Scaiffe--funded " Arkansas Project " to bring down Bill

> Clinton-for Solicitor General.

> * Nominated Terrance Boyle--foe of civil rights--to a federal

> judgeship.

> * Proposes to ease permit process--including environmental

> considerations--for refinery, nuclear, and hydroelectric dam

> construction (Washington Post, May 18, 2001).

> * Proposes to give government the authority to take private

> property

> through eminent domain for power lines.

> * Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable

> energy come from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska

> National Wildlife Reserve.

> * Plans on serving genetically engineered foods at all official

> government functions.

> * Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a

> timber

> industry lobbyist

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