What Bush/Cheney auctioned: Medicare
What Bush got: $5.2 million from insurance/HMO industry; $1.4 million from pharmaceutical industry.
What they got: HMOs got $12 billion in subsidies to lure people out of Medicare, and $6.8 billion for privatized "health savings accounts"; drug corporations got $139 billion in projected profits; no re-importation of prescription drugs; and a prohibition on bulk purchasing to lower prices.
What we got: Higher prescription drug prices; highest Medicare premium hike in history.

What Bush/Cheney auctioned: Clean Air
What Bush got: $1.3 million from electric utilities industry
What they got: Rollback in the Clean Air Act that allows coal-fired plants to pollute more; possible "get out of jail free card" from pending lawsuits.
What we got: Likely increase in asthma attacks among children and seniors.

What Bush/Cheney auctioned: Tax Policies
What Bush got: $18.4 from commercial banks, securities firms and accountants
What they got: No crack down on offshore tax shelters; a sharp decline in audits of corporations; capital gains, dividend and personal taxes cut so that investors pay a lower rate than workers.
What we got: $85 billion a year in lost revenue from the off-shore tax loophole alone.