What would you do to clean up Bush's mess ?

[kentuck]

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. Go back in a time machine, and encourage dems to fight harder for the 2000 election

[Just-plain-Kathy]

5. Great answer Liberal_in_La.

I was going to say, 'all of the above' except for the Palin answer.

[47of74]

2. I said

Hire 6 special investigators to investigate the different criminal charges.

And follow up no matter where the investigations led.

[MADem]

3. Other: Organize a little public/private partnerships with a "WPA" bent

in some of the hardest hit communities with impossibly high unemployment. Put the people whose benefits have run out into these jobs. Include retraining as part of the package, along with a living wage (might not be what they were making before the downturn, but enough to live in dignity).

There are roads that need fixing, schools that need repairing, national parks that need maintenance of trails and facilities, and other projects (to include pulling down old buildings in inner cities and decimated communities that have turned into wastelands) that need doing. In some cases, union types will have to step aside--if the job isn't one that would be done otherwise, they need to understand that non-union, often inexperienced help will be working on some of these jobs along with union types who would be supervising them.

People who aren't terribly active or fit could do transcribing and archival work--in the Depression, a lot of historical records were transcribed by people and preserved as a consequence. I found an ancestral record for my family that was quite "key" that was archived by one of those folks!

I'm just scratching the surface here...I'm sure others know of jobs in their communities that could stand some doing, but no one has the cash to make it happen.

[Greyhound]

4. Other; 1 - 6 would be a good start.

Beyond that, is far to much too write about since the few who would read it, have already reached the same conclusions.

[Selatius]

6. Enact Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights.

Taken from his State of the Union Address given on January 11, 1944:

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.

As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.

But frankly, I believe that any person in this day and age that tried to do that would suffer a fate not too different from this:

[Stevepol]

7. Too much to choose from. We should have been asked to rank them.

It all needs to be done.

[B Calm]

8. Where is all of the above option?

[kentuck]

11. Sorry. Too late to edit.

But I think these points need to be made over and over. The George W Bush Texas-sized Mess is too big for any one man to clean up.

[annabanana]

9. Accept the resignations of the "loyal Bushies" at DOJ. . .n/t

[HughBeaumont]

10. The first three, right off the bat. Then . . . INVESTIGATE.

Especially #3. Letting the rich off easy resulted in the exact opposite of what they said would happen.

[Echo In Light]

12. Too many enablers complicitous throughout. Hence nothing serious will occur re accountability

[chill_wind]

13. Get rid of key entrenched architects and holdovers who want to keep and protect it.

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[Enrique]

14. move forward

make the most of this historic opportunity to transform the economy.

[CrispyQ]

15. Put corporations back in their proper place

as non-living entities that serve humans & human communities, not the other way around.

Giving non-living entities, whose sole purpose is profit, the kind of power we have given the multinationals, was stupid! They are going to kill us! In the name of profit, they are going to suck us dry. They are going to suck the planet dry. And only when it's too late, will they realize they've killed their life source - which is us!

Ack! :banghead:

For a quick refresher on corporate personhood, start here: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/

Slavery is the fiction that people are property.
Corporate personhood is the fiction that corporations are people.

[GeorgeGist]

16. Force rich people into being middle class by repossessing any net worth ...

above $500K for each US taxpayer and each dependent. Use that money to pay off the national debt. Require that all receipts reveal profit paid. Allow individual taxpayers, but not corporations, to claim 100% of profits and interest paid as a credit toward their income tax liability with a provision that any profits paid over and above earned income be rebated to the taxpayer. Tax all unearned income at 100% unless it is a charitable gift. ...