George Walker Bush is our 43rd president, son of George H.W. Bush, and is the first father/son duo since John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Bush had a tumultuous presidency, as he held both the highest and lowest approval rates in U.S. History. As governor, he was the first to win consecutive 4-year terms and became sober after turning 40, which is the year I decided to get wasted on a regular basis. He is the first president to earn an MBA, and he’s one of four presidents to have won an election without the popular vote. He’s the first president to have finished a marathon, and he’s one of four presidents to have been a cheerleader-pompoms, short skirt and all.
He also suspended Habeas Corpus during his administration, passed the Patriot Act (which both Republicans and Democrats who voted on it admitted they had never read it) and has the record for taking the most days of vacation of any president. President Bush, took 1,020 vacation days and charged the taxpayers $140,000,000 for those vacations. 1,020 days…let’s put that into perspective. One year has 365 days. Two years has 730 days. Three years has 1090 days. President Bush took just under three years off of work. I used to work for a company that would dock your salary if you took ONE day off to watch your child during coronavirus. Fuck, the military only gets 30 days per year. Jesus Christ!
Oh, and when he owned the Texas Rangers, the taxpayers handed the private baseball team more than $200,000,000 in subsidies, and never got a a return from the stadium’s surging revenues. The profits went to the owners…I guess everything’s bigger in Texas.
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