I just received this,so I thought I would send it along. Guess who the are talking about?
Obama's First Six Months' Accomplishments
Let's compare it to The First Six Months of George W. Bush:
Here is a list of his work in his first six months: * Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
* Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.
* Cut $35 million in funding for doctors to get advanced paediatric training.
* Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources.
* Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic drinking water.
* Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English
speaking persons. This, from a candidate who would readily fire-up his Spanish-speaking
skills in front of would-be Hispanic voters.
* Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and the coral reefs of
northwest Hawaii. San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001
* Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks.
* Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to
companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws.
* OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials
soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining,
and foresting.
* Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high level Iran Contra figure - to the post of
United Nations ambassador.
* Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation.
* Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers
of care for people without insurance.
* Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the potential
consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents.
* Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands.
* Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America program for public housing.
* Proposed to eliminate a federal program designed to help communities (and successfully
used in Seattle) prepare for natural disasters.
* Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement.
* Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers.
* Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to
maintain wetlands habitat on their property.
* Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work.
* Cut a program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees
(though it still pays for ****).
* Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.
* Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high level Iran Contra figure-to Assistant Secretary
of State for Inter-American Affairs.
* Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million.
* Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal placed on the
Endangered Species List.
* Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air
conditioners and heat pumps.
* Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety.
* Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas that
contributes to global warming.
* Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer abortion counselling
with other independent funds.
* Closed White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach.
* Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive-to post of Assistant Secretary of
Labour for Mine Safety and Health.
This would make a lovely forward to send to all the right-wing extremist and ask them: 'Where were you with your outrage and signs when this crap was going on?