I have learned to judge public officials by their actions. I keep records of the voting records and performance records of politicians. They come very useful in evaluating the impact their behavior has on the lives of Americans, citizens of the world and its’ inhabitants.

The following is only a small a list of accomplishments of George W. Bush as President of the United States:

1. Cut funding for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks by 28 percent.

2. Cut funding for research into renewable energy sources by 50 percent. Has abandoned funding for wind turbine projection of electricty, where studies has shown this renewable power source could generate as much as 20% of our electrical needs in the U.S., thus making us less dependent on middle eastern oil.

3. Announced his plans to allow oil drilling in Montana’s Lewis and Clark National Forest. Why is this needed? We have the means to produce 20% of our electrical needs from renewable sources, the wind for example.

4: Canceled the 2004 deadline for auto makers to develope prototype high mileage cars.

5. Appointed oil and coal lobbyist J. Steven Giles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Giles is not a protector of the Interior.

6. Proposed the selling of oil and gas tracts in the Alaska Wildlife Preserve. If we start raping our precious national preserves, what will we have left of natural beauty?

7. Allowed Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton to request suggestions for opening up national monuments for foresting, coal mining, and oil and gas drilling. The foresting is desperately needed to reduce fires. This mess was created by the Clinton adminstration. However this should be done on an open bid basis from companies wishing to do this, not not “giving” it to a company they chose. Coal, oil and gas drilling should not be allowed period. This creates a nightmare of providing adequate protection to these national treasures of beauty.

8. Abandoned his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a major contributor to global warming. Carbon Dioxide emissions are not declining!

9. Nominated Lynn Scarlett, a global warming skeptic and an opponent of stricter standards on air pollution, as Undersecretary of the Interior. Air pollution in some cities has increased significantly.

10. Nominated former mining company executive Dan Lauriski as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health. Lauriski has ties to several large mining concerns.

11. Approved Interior Secretary Gale Norton’s controversial plan to auction off areas close to Florida’s eastern shore for oil and gas development. (Bush later abandoned the plan because of its' unpopularity in Florida, where Jeb Bush, his brother is Governor).

12. Pushed through his tax cut, 43% of which goes to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. Do you realize those that make over $500,000 a year are paying 40% less tax now than they did two years ago. The average hard working American with a family of four saw only an 18% average tax relief. Again, Republicans have always been for the wealthy, not the poor working man. In addition, all you have to do is look at the revenues of taxes collected, and the budget that the Bush Adminstration is proposing, you do not have to be a CPA to see there is more going out than coming in. Where will this lead? To a severe depression. We are already in the beginning of it.

13. Cut $39 million from federal spending on libraries. This will have serious impact on the availablity of books to poor children.

14. Cut funding for Girls and Boys Clubs of America programs in public housing by $60 million.

15. Cut $200 million from workforce training programs for dislocated workers. This program although it was started by Clinton, has been the most successful program ever to get people off welfare rolls. Will this lead to more homeless people on the streets?

16. Cut $200 million from Childcare and Development grant, a program that provides child care to low-income families as they are forced from welfare to work. We are now seeing the effects of this. Single mothers are being evicted from their homes, living in their cars on the streets with their children.

17. Cut $70 million in funds for public housing repair. We have already spent billions of dollars in public housing, so are we now going to let that investment go down the drain by not keeping these facilties repaired?

18. Cut $35 million in funding for advanced pediatric training. ( The U.S. already has a severe shortage of physicians for children.)

19. Denied college financial aid to students convicted of misdemeanor drug charges (though convicted murderers are still eligible for financial aid, go figure. )

20. Cut $15.7 million from programs dealing with child abuse and neglect. This is severly impacting children that are abused at home.

21. The elimination of “Reading Is Fundamental” program, this gives free books to poor children.

22. Delayed rules that would reduce “acceptable” levels of arsenic in drinking water. Arsenic is a known carcioengenic and in some U.S. have already approched un-acceptable EPA limits. This is sheer madness on the adminstration thinking.

23. Revoked rules strengthening the power of the government to deny contracts to companies that violate federal laws, environmental laws, and work’ place safety standards. This leaves the door wide up for companies to break the law, and still do business with the government.

24. Broke his campaign promise to invest $100 million per year in rain forest conservation. The world gets nearly 30% of desperately needed new oxygen from the world’s rain forests.

25. Nullified a proposal to increase public access to information a the potential ramifications of chemical plant accidents.

26. Pulled out of the 1997 Ky