54. Signing a report
endorsing outsourcing with
thousands of American workers having their jobs shipped overseas.
55. Instituting steel
tariffs deemed
illegal by the World Trade Organization
– Bush repealed them 20-months later when the European Union pledged
to impose retaliatory sanctions on up to $2.2 billion in exports
from the United States.
56. Promoting
economic policies that failed to
create new jobs.
57. Promoting
economic policies that failed to
help small businesses
58. Pledging
a "jobs and growth" package would
create 1,836,000 new jobs by the end of 2003 and 5.5 million new
jobs by 2004—so far the president has fallen 1,615,000 jobs short of
the mark.
59. Running up a
foreign deficit of "such
record-breaking proportions that it threatens the
financial stability of the global economy."
60. Issuing
inaccurate budget forecasts accompanying proposals to reduce the
deficit,
omitting the continued costs of
Iraq, Afghanistan and elements of Homeland Security.
61. Claiming his 2003
tax cut would give 23 million small business owners an average tax
cut of $2,042 when "nearly four out of every five tax filers (79%)
with small business income would
receive less" than that amount.
62. Passing
tax cuts for the wealthy while falsely claiming "people
in the
10 percent bracket" were benefiting
most."
63. Passing
successive tax cuts largely responsible for turning a projected
surplus of $5 trillion into a
projected deficit of $4.3
trillion.