How can the USA recover from the disaster of the Bush years?
Rory McRandall asked:
By the time January of 2009 rolls around (when the next president is inaugurated) George W. Bush will have left a very broken country in the wake of his ideologically reprehensible, morally bankrupt and managerially challenged administration.
By the time January of 2009 rolls around (when the next president is inaugurated) George W. Bush will have left a very broken country in the wake of his ideologically reprehensible, morally bankrupt and managerially challenged administration.
The debt and deficit will have America teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The unwinnable foreign wars and unendable “war on terrorism” will have done nothing to make Americans safer but will have contributed a lot towards the reasons the rest of the world has for hating the US along with helping to balloon the deficit and once again impairing the confidence of the US servicemen.
The complete failure to address pollution and global warming will leave have left the nation and the world facing an uncertain future and growing dangers and costs associated with climate change.
The continuation of the fruitless “war on drugs” will have again failed to address the problems of criminal drug trafficking.
What can be done to recover?
lollipoppett2005 on February 11th, 2009
Depends if JEB runs for office…………..god help us all if he does!
BigDog on February 12th, 2009
Boo hoo, get over it.
clarity on February 15th, 2009
I’d like to know the answer to this one myself : (
Blue Note on February 16th, 2009
The USA will recover quick , when the Americans decide they need to.
Earl D on February 16th, 2009
I’m still trying to figure out how we’ll recover from the Reagan years!
He is forcing me to retire at age 67 or possibly 72!
That was Reagan’s legacy!
He also let 12 million Illegal immigrants into the country on a one time deal and NOW they want to do it again!
Leogirl0804 on February 16th, 2009
One way to recover is put a democrat in office to remind everyone that its wasn’t as bad as the media and the left wing made it out to be during the good ole Bush years.
greatexplorer1 on February 18th, 2009
We can all hope that there will be a revolution, and the republican party will be wiped out.
But then it would be replaced by a similar party, but at least they would have the shame of having to change their party name.
Joe P on February 18th, 2009
Buy and accumulate tech stock now
shy_angeleyes01 on February 18th, 2009
The same way it did after Clinton.
karlkalisnikov on February 22nd, 2009
I hope you realize that if you end deficit spending completely, you end the market for treasurys- a market many pension plans (and the jobs they create) depend on. As for your interpretation of the Bush administration, I recall the same questions being asked when the economy began to TANK under Clinton, and we have somewhat recovered from that. So to answer your question- what can be done? The same thing we have been doing, letting businesses create jobs through proper taxes and incentives and educating the youth in science and math- not diversity.
aroybal854 on February 24th, 2009
Doubt there is too much that can be done. Americans don’t seem to care about anything, and even if something could be done, they would refuse to do it. That is the reason Bush is in office in the first place. People want to divert their attention so they dont have to worry about finding any real solutions, and he is very good at distracting people and diverting their attention.
Anyway, the problems that have been created in the last six years are so great that we have not only not made any tangible progress, but our issues have have destroyed our economy, our unified national spirit, our international relations, and increased problems domestically with education, poverty, crime, and other issues.
If you really want to try to fix it, make people care about real problems, rather than “threats” from weak foreign dictators and “moral” issues. But I am pretty sure by this point that is impossible. Not to be a downer, but I think the time for solving those problems has come and gone.
WildThing on February 27th, 2009
The first thing we can do is this November by electing a Democratic Congress. Then, in 2008, we can elect a Democratic President who will be able to work with the Democratic Congress. It won’t be something that will happen overnight - it will take years, but the first step will be in sweeping the Republicans out with the trash where they belong and installing some forward-thinking progressive Democrats who care more about the country than they do their rich friends and themselves.
themrpine on March 1st, 2009
You mean Bush, Clinton, Bush.
Why not add Rice or H Clinton or Lieberman or Kerry.
Who out there is not just a tennis ball. How bout Chuck Hagel, he could be bright orange. Tennis anyone!?