Firstly, I'd like to say that all the good and bad things that have happened to the United States for the last eight years aren't all the sole work of Bush. He couldn't have done any of it without the support of our wonderful backstabbing congress. That being said, Bush and his administration are certainly responsible for a fair share of the country's problems.
This article fails to address many more of the issues people take with Bush's presidency. It mentions nothing about the administration's disregard for the constitution, Bush and Cheney's personal interest in the unauthorized (by congress) war in Iraq, and massive deficit increase.
As for myth #1, it does nothing to disprove the notion that deregulation has harmed the economy. I still hold that opinion and this article states a bunch of statistics without explaining them. Also, statistics can be presented in a limited and biased way and without analysis they are an especially useless form of argumentation.
Also, Myth #5 implies that Bush has contributed greatly to recent environmental advancements in the United States.
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Given the liberal media's failure to acknowledge this Administration's true record on alternative energy, conservation, and climate change, it's not surprising this charge has stuck. But here are some irrefutable data points: From 2001 to 2007, air pollution decreased by 12 percent, and fine particulate matter pollution is down 17 percent since 2001. Ethanol production quadrupled from 1.6 billion gallons in 2000 to 6.5 billion gallons in 2007, wind energy production has increased by more than 400 percent, and solar energy capacity has doubled. In 2007, solar installations increased more than 32 percent and the U.S. produced 96 percent more biodiesel (490 million gallons) than in 2006. The Administration also provided nearly $18 billion to research, develop, and promote alternative and more efficient energy technologies such as biofuels, solar, wind, clean coal, nuclear, and hydrogen.
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Again they are citing statistics without analysis. Where is the proof that any of this can be attributed to the Bush administration? They provided $18 billion for energy research across the entire scope of its broad field. Whoopty fuckin' doo! Advancement in energy efficiency has been made by the country without significant help from the president. Companies have developed more efficient products to adjust to demand from consumers for machines we can actually afford to use, and individual states deserve a lot of credit for setting and achieving environmental goals.
Overall I find this article lacking an address of all of Bush's accused fallacies, or by leaving them out are they admitting that he has in fact done terrible things to the country? Not only that, but the way the information is presented is heavily biased. Citing non referenced statistics with no context is bad journalism.
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