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The Bush Wall of Shame

****This list has been edited as it is quite lengthy.****

- Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million. The Dallas Morning News, April 13, 2001
- Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training. Washington Post, April 10, 2001
- Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources. Washington Post, April 10, 2001
- Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water. Washington Post, March 30, 2001
- Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks. Washington Post, April 10, 2001
- Abandoned campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. Boston Globe, April 10, 2001
- Rescinded proposal to increase public access to information about potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents. New York Times, March 27, 2001
- Cut $200 million for work force training for dislocated workers. Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2001
- Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing. Washington Post, April 10, 2001
- Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million. Washington Post, April 10, 2001
- Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) the waste gas that contributes to global warming. New York Times, March 20, 2001
- Interior Secretary Gale Norton goes forth with controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast eastern of Florida. Associated Press, April 19, 2001
- Announced intention to open up Montana�s Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling. Missoula Independent, April 12, 2001
- Proposes to redraw boundaries of nation monuments which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments.
- Gutted White House AIDS Office.
- Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects. Boston Globe, April 25, 2001
- Under Bush plan convicted misdemeanor drug users cannot get financial aid for college yet convicted murders could. American Prospect, April 20, 2001
- Refused to fund continued litigation of the government�s tobacco company lawsuit. Associated Press, April 26, 2001
- 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 instance of daunting medical bills.
- Is pushing for development of small nuclear weapons to attack deeply buried targets - weapons which would violate the Comprehensive test Ban Treaty. American Physical Society, April 22, 2001
- Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. Washington Post, April 26, 2001
- Eliminated funding for the "We the People" education program which taught schoolchildren about the Constitution, Bill of Rights and citizenship. St. Petersburg Times, May 1, 2001
- Cancelled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high-mileage cars. Mercury News, May 11th, 2001
- Nominated Harvey Pitts - lawyer for teen sex video distributor - to head SEC. Washington Post, May 11th, 2001
- 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. Associated Press, May 16, 2001
- 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. Washington Post, May 18, 2001
- 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. Washington Post, May 18, 2001

- In 2000 rode to the White House on the backs of disenfranchised elderly, Jewish, African-American, and immigrant voters in Florida.

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 9:13 AM