This is where I would disagree with you.

If Bush had left the tax rates alone, and not give tax benefits to small businesses, do you honestly think that doing so would not have made a difference??

When you give small-businesses more benefits by means of tax deductions, this in return gives them more money to spend. All I hear about on the news is the amount of jobs created. Over the past couple of years, it's been up up up, and unemployment numbers have been going down down down.