Bush Passes the Buck on Climate Change

I think the US seem to be complained about because of the fact that all of your vehicles seem huge compared to the cars in other countries. This is just what I hear from others- not sure if it is true.

How do you tell countries like China and India that they are not allowed to have things like cars, when the average American has been driving them for years on end and these days, it's the Chinese and Indians who are providing the necessary tools to keep the Americans able to drive their cars? When you look at things this way, environmentalism starts to sound like a form of racism. USA and the developed world were perfectly OK with driving cars and having factories. Suddenly countries like China and India start rising and we get all upset because Chinese and Indians who are getting richer start doing the things that Americans and other nationalities have done for years. However, I don't think life is that easy. If only we could just dismiss environmentalist as a bunch of knee Jerk liberals out to keep the third world poor! Unfortunately, global warming and environmental degradation are pretty much a fact of life and although the scientist may not agree on everything, caring for the global eco-system is not something you can dismiss as the preserve of a few geeks. So what can we do? Well, it would be a help if the richest and strongest nation on the planet lead the way and showed the world how you can be prosperous and still have a good quality of life through having a good environment. The richest nation on earth has shown the capability of creating more innovation than any other nation on the planet and can create innovation to create prosperity and keep the environment clean (something which could be sold to the Chinese and Indians, thus reducing grumbles about trade surplus's). Unfortunately, the leader of the free world feels no such obligation other than to lecture the rest of the world about the environment, human rights and so on while he encourages his government to violate the mentioned items.

Creative Genius, it is true. Too many Americans are driving massive gas guzzling cars. Some do it because they have large families, some because they transport large furntiture and materials, others do it just because they like having big cars. I drive a little Mazda Protege and my wife drives a Toyota Yaris as we see no need to drive oversized and overpriced vehicles. Tigertang, nobody is blaming China or India for driving cars or anything of the sort. That's why I brought it up. It's funny that you pointed out we are the richest country in the world since people are so focused on this recession that they truly believe us to be poor. Just so you know China is the 4th richest country in the world. I don't see the US government lecturing anyone on the environment. We know where we stand on environmental issues. It's well documented and any country as large and heavily populated as the US is going to have more emissions and such than a country like Belgium.

He has grown the economy, reduced taxes for everyone who pays taxes, increased tax revenue, created jobs, prevented terrorist attacks since 9/11. He is fighting and winning a war with out the mass arrest of US Citizens(like FDR), and he is doing this with a hostile press and he does not have to have them arrested (like Lincoln, Wilson and FDR). You hear a few people complaining but you do not see riots and mass protests against him or his policies (like Johnson). Even the Polar Bear Heard has increased in size to 25,000 (up from about 12,000 in the 70's and 80's) during his administration.

That's impossible Bob. We all know that Bush has done nothing but attack Iraq. He didn't create the Department of Homeland Security and he certainly didn't fix airport security. Nope. No way. Airports don't have any increased security to prevent the same thing from happening again and these Sky Marshalls, who have already stopped some attacks, are a myth! He attacked Iraq and that's IT! How dare you claim that in his 8 years he did anything but attack Iraq?

P.S.: The Bush Administration is a failed presidency.