Feature: Shifters

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A Look at the Biggest Winners and Biggest Losers Under the Bush Administration

By MicCheck Radio January 28, 2008

Of course not everyone had a tough time over the past seven years. Here are the five who came through their Bush Years relatively footloose and problem-free.

Big Oil
Even as oil companies raked in record profits, the White House fought to make sure they kept $7.6 billion in tax subsidies and the legal loophole that lets them dodge paying $10.7 billion in royalties from oil found in public U.S. lands in the Gulf of Mexico. IHT IHT

Contractor Mercenaries
President Bush has thrown billions of dollars—and undue faith—behind corrupt contractor mercenaries to fight his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And like members of his administration, the president lets these contractors act outside the law. Take Blackwater: top State Department officials knew about incidents of the contractor killing innocent civilians in Iraq for more than two years—and it turned a blind eye. ABC

The Filthy Rich
Welcome to the new Gilded Age. From 2003 to 2005, the increase in income from the richest one percent of Americans was higher than the total income of the poorest 20 percent. How’d we get this way? Bush’s tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.NY Times

Cronies and Bushies
From the Department of Justice to FEMA, from the Coalitional Provisional Authority to the FDA, Bush has packed his administration with friends and partisans, prizing loyalty over experience and ideology over competence. Washington Post Washington Post CNN NY Times

People Who Fear Human-Animal Hybrids
President Bush was able to keep one promise from his previous State of the Union addresses. In 2006, he pledged to fight the creation of “human-animal hybrids,” sparking visions of fearsome ManBeasts terrorizing the nation. As of today, we’ve spotted no half-man/half-animal creatures. Breaking News: We may have given the president credit too soon—just this week, we’ve discovered, British scientists created a ManCow clone. State Of The Union BBC

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As President Bush’s days of power draw to a close, one thing is clear: We’ve got a lot more problems now than we did seven years ago. Here are 99 of them, everything from less money to more war and a planet in crisis. It’s not a comprehensive list, so we have one question for you:

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