George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

[blackhawk]

I can think of several things to name after George W. Bush...but highways ain't among them...

Can anyone else think of things to name after him?

No but I can think of a few things to name after you but for the sake of civility I won't list them.

 

[Lakhota]

I can understand naming a rock after Bush - but nothing paid for by taxpayers (especially federal funds).

 

[Oldguy]

I drove on the Old Man Bush highway.

.

Yeah...and appropriately enough, it's a toll road. Not only a toll road, but one run by a foreign company which keeps part of the tolls for their "services."

How Bush is that?

 

[Oldguy]

Dallas may soon be home to the George W. Bush Expressway.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R) has introduced legislation that would rename a seven-mile stretch of Dallas highway in honor of the former president, according to the Dallas Observer.

More: George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

So what? He's a former President of the United States, so it's appropriate.

After all, if the Grayson County, TX can name a freeway after Buck Owens, why not Bush?

 

[OKTexas]

Sorry, but I can't jump on the GW hater's bandwagon. I think he did what he thought was right for the country. While many of his decisions were poor, they weren't done with the intent to fuck things up; it just kind of turned out that way. Jimmy Carter was much the same.

Too many bad guys profited from the Bush administration for him to get a pass for trying to "do what he thought was right for the country." As President he has certain responsibilities to uphold, and those don't include risking our national security by starting multiple wars, funneling money to his cronies (including Vice President) with our military's money, or beginning a partisan rift in our country that has no end in sight.

Of course your dear leader has no responsibility in magnifying that rift, right? LMAO

 

[edthecynic]

I can think of several things to name after George W. Bush...but highways ain't among them...

AND idiots like you can't read or obviously think and definitely have NO Memories of what occurred!
These are the realities you choose to ignore! These events happened and nothing you can say can change it!

GWB will be considered by historians as one of the greatest Presidents who in spite of the following huge gigantic cataclysmic events larger and greater in number then ANY president had to face! NO president had ever faced the following:

1) Dot.com bust cost $5 trillion in lost market value.. this means every year for 30 years now starting in 2000 the federal revenue is over $66 billion written off against taxes owed.
How many people LOST jobs due to the bust??
According to the Los Angeles Times, when the dot-com bubble burst, it wiped out $5 trillion dollars in market value for tech companies. More than half of the Internet companies created since 1995 were gone by 2004 -
and hundreds of thousands of skilled technology workers were out of jobs.
The dot-com bubble: How to lose $5 trillion ? Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs

2) Did YOU forget that 9/11 occurred and it cost $2 trillion over the next 30 years again $33 billion will NOT BE PAiD.. was that Bush's fault?
Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 JUST in New York!!
Year 2001: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were the events that helped shape other financial events of the decade. After that terrible day in September 2001, our economic climate was never to be the same again. It was only the third time in history that the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for a period of time. In this case, it was closed from September 10 - 17. Besides the tragic human loss of that day, the economic loss cannot even be estimated. Some estimate that there was over $60 billion in insurance losses alone.
Approximately 18,000 small businesses were either displaced or destroyed in Lower Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell. There was a buildup in homeland security on all levels. 9/11 caused a catastrophic financial loss for the U.S.
The Top 10 Financial Events of the Decade

3) $1 trillion in written off losses due to the WORST Hurricane SEASONS in history!
The worst Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 in 2005. It took 1,836 lives and caused $81.2 billion in damages. Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992 as a Category 5. It caused 40 deaths and $30 billion in property damage. More than 250,000 people were left homeless and 82,000 businesses were destroyed or damaged.
Hurricane Katrina ALONE! Year 2005: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
On August 25, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S. as a strong Category 3 or low Category 4 storm. It quickly became the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history, almost destroying New Orleans due to severe flooding.

Hurricane Rita quickly followed Katrina only to make matters worse. Between the two, more than $200 billion in damage was done. 400,000 jobs were lost and 275,000 homes were destroyed. Many of the jobs and homes were never to be recovered. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and over 1,000 were killed and more are missing. The effect on oil and gasoline prices was long-lasting.

400,000 jobs due to Hurricanes Katrina/Rita
145,000 jobs in NYC alone due to 9/11
300,000 jobs lost due to dot.com busts.

Almost 1 million jobs alone from those 3 events

4) Economic terrorist attack 9/18/2008 or how the world almost came to the end at 2pm on 9/18/2008!!!
Evidently the MAJORITY IF IDIOTS like YOU ,NEVER knew how close to entire collapse the ENTIRE world's economy was on 9/18/2008 when an economic terrorist attack occurred-- lead in part by George Soros!!!

On Thursday (Sept 18), at 11am the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the U.S., to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two. The Treasury ...estimation is that by 2pm that afternoon, $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the U.S., would have collapsed the entire economy of the U.S., and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.
Zero Hedge: How The World Almost Came To An End At 2PM On September 18

Again all this happened and at the same time the MSM was bashing Bush DAILY!

Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." --
Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.Newsweek's Evan Thomas: 'Our Job Is To Bash the President' | NewsBusters

But when it comes to Obama this same Bush Bashing Editor of NewsWeek.... Evan Thomas calls Obama god!

I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
Newsweek?s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ?Sort of God? | NewsBusters

While I'm not going to argue with you on any of this, I find it interesting that you defend Bush due to all the hardships he faced, yet Obama is the Devil in disguise even though he faced even bigger economic obstacles after the housing and stock market crashes beginning in 2008. Oh the irony of it.

The Stock Slump of 2008: Wrecking Ball to Wealth

The wealth destruction went beyond stocks last year. Jeremy Payne, a senior vice president with market research and analysis firm S&P Capital IQ, estimates that about $10 trillion of wealth disappeared in the global housing market. Add that to the $7 trillion in U.S. stock market losses, another $5 trillion or so in equity losses overseas and the sharp decline in values of more exotic investments such as mortgage securities, and "we're probably looking at $25 trillion worth of asset price deflation," Payne said.

The Stock Slump of 2008: Wrecking Ball to Wealth - washingtonpost.com

You have to understand that what Obama inherited is Obama's fault because the Dems controlled Congress since 2007, and everything that happened before that is Clinton's fault because the GOP controlled Congress since 1995.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I drove on the Old Man Bush highway.

.

Yeah...and appropriately enough, it's a toll road. Not only a toll road, but one run by a foreign company which keeps part of the tolls for their "services."

How Bush is that?

Still screwing us over even though he's out of office.

Yep. And, I'll bet that war criminal bastard is just loving it.

 

[Stephanie]

Can you believe they are upset about a frikken road being named after a President..

is there anything the left doesn't get their panties in a wad over?

 

[Article 15]

Sorry, but I can't jump on the GW hater's bandwagon. I think he did what he thought was right for the country. While many of his decisions were poor, they weren't done with the intent to fuck things up; it just kind of turned out that way. Jimmy Carter was much the same.

Two wars (one very much of choice) on credit + tax cuts. We both know that's nuts and that it's still an issue we have to deal with today.

 

[Stephanie]

wow people, did you know tax cuts for you are nuts?

that guberment just needs to keep all your monies, how DARE you get some back from them

 

[Lovebears65]

Dallas may soon be home to the George W. Bush Expressway.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R) has introduced legislation that would rename a seven-mile stretch of Dallas highway in honor of the former president, according to the Dallas Observer.

More: George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

Good. He was a great president .. UNLIKE the asshole is office now

 

[rdean]

George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

Crash and burn?

Destruction Derby?

 

[Stephanie]

Dallas may soon be home to the George W. Bush Expressway.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R) has introduced legislation that would rename a seven-mile stretch of Dallas highway in honor of the former president, according to the Dallas Observer.

More: George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

Good. He was a great president .. UNLIKE the asshole is office now

they think obama is so great they want his coke sniffing mug on Mt. Rushmore not just a steet named after him..

 

[jknowgood]

Can you believe they are upset about a frikken road being named after a President..

is there anything the left doesn't get their panties in a wad over?

Yeah, anything obama does wrong.

 

[editec]

A seven mile stretch of highway in Texas?



Perfectly fitting homage to his years in office.

 

[rdean]

A seven mile stretch of highway in Texas?



Perfectly fitting homage to his years in office.

Hopefully, a "stretch" no one will ever use.

Republicans sure threw him under the bus. He was only following their policies.

 

[OKTexas]

Sorry, but I can't jump on the GW hater's bandwagon. I think he did what he thought was right for the country. While many of his decisions were poor, they weren't done with the intent to fuck things up; it just kind of turned out that way. Jimmy Carter was much the same.

Two wars (one very much of choice) on credit + tax cuts. We both know that's nuts and that it's still an issue we have to deal with today.

I'm sure you just ignored those cuts and paid the Clinton rates anyway, right? I mean you knowing how wrong they were and all, I'm sure your ignoring your dear leader making them permanent and continuing to pay the higher rate. HYPOCRITE!

 

[OKTexas]

Dallas may soon be home to the George W. Bush Expressway.

Texas State Rep. Dan Branch (R) has introduced legislation that would rename a seven-mile stretch of Dallas highway in honor of the former president, according to the Dallas Observer.

More: George W. Bush May Get Expressway Named After Him

So what? He's a former President of the United States, so it's appropriate.

After all, if the Grayson County, TX can name a freeway after Buck Owens, why not Bush?

Why not indeed, they alread have one named for his dad.