Guess Who has to clean up bush's bloody mess? We do.

[mopaul]

that's the final insult to all this horror and carnage of course, we the people have to clean it all up afterwards, and it's such a huge stinking mess, it'll take decades. but the bush lovers damn sure won't volunteer to roll up their sleeves and take out bush's garbage, they'll leave it to us.

whatever anger and isolation and damage bush has brought upon america and the world will be dumped on we the people when they finally go away.

[sniffa]

1. if bush were a dog

we couLd smoosh his nose in the mess and say, "bad dog! bad! shame on you!"

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Love your thinking!

[oscar111]

5. we will have to do it, true: but it wont take a generation

{did you say a generation? my memory fuzzy this hour of the morning}

i am amazed at how fast humans scurry around and clean up the physical part of messes. Not to belittle the crime of bush in wrecking the middle class. Just to show some hope exists for cleaning up the physical damage, in about seven years. But the psychological scars will last many decades, true.

the merely physical damage to roads unattended for 25 years, and the like , will get fixed fast. Look at how Japan rebuilt after WW2.

The other stuff will last much longer -- lives shattered: careers never launched: emotional scars from our hi crime rate: college degrees never gotten: personal family tragedies: financial fear created by bill collectors harrasing millions unnecessarily: millions robbed by Reagan's unregulated corners of the economy: the 100,000 homeless dead each year.

[CrispyQ]

9. I disagree. Mopaul was right, it will take decades, if ever.

I think it will take years to undo the damage that's been done to our civil liberties & our protections through poor legislation, if it happens at all.

Here are just a few:
Bankruptcy Reform Bill
CAFTA Energy Policy Act
Flag Desecration
Real ID
Transportation
ANWR
and of course, at the top of the entire shit pile, the Patriot Act.

And don't forget the deficit.

[MuseRider]

4. Ahhh

lets do it anyway. Then we can put him in a kennel so he can't ever do it again.

[tanyev]

6. But that dog still doesn't go get a plastic bag and do anything about it.

[FormerDittoHead]

3. It's the cyclic $500+ Billion dollar "bill" we have to pay to the rich...

Let's not forget the S&L scandal - that was a over $500 billion, now this $500B.(Iraq + tax cuts for the rich + debt interest)..

Seems to be a cycle, doesn't it? Once we get to pay one off, we get another...

[oscar111]

7. FormerRush: interesting: is that a wellknown cycle, or an off the top of

your head observation?

i would like to learn more about it, if it is a written-about cycle.

if it is something you just noticed, congratulations, because it is most interesting. Thanks.

[FormerDittoHead]

8. Just off the top of my head...

...although I've thought about for a while, seemed that there was always this "big bill" that comes due during Republican administrations.

The $500 (or was it $550?) billion S&L figure always bugged me, if for nothing else that it was forgotten so quickly (while we paid it off).

I look at this deal, and I just saw some similiarites, the numbers started to add up and so I thought about how it happened before and something quite similar is happening again...

[oscar111]

11. Bill to clean up the Great Depression

numbers?

The republican Hoover left us that bill, that mess to clean up.

any other GOP bills you can think of?

how about the medical research not done under Nixon, because he "impounded" the funds Congress had put into law, which other prez's always had allowed to be spent? That not-done research surely cost many lives. A bill paid in lifeblood.

[BiggJawn]

10. You wanna know what pisses me off most about that?

We're gonna have to clean up after that drunken frat boy, but do you think the ReTHUGs and Limp-ball Ditto-Monkeys will pick up a shovel and help?

Fuck, no they won't. They'll keep going on about how Clinton's Penis(tm) caused it all....

[oscar111]

12. the wont help because { as another DU poster put it}

"The GOP gets in office, cuts taxes for the rich, makes a total mess of society. After a while the people get their act together and throw the GOP out. Then the dems have to raise taxes to clean up the mess, and ... the GOP starts to scream at the top of their lungs, "Cut taxes! Cut taxes!" and keeps screaming it for 20 years, ... till the people forget how awful the Republicans were, and put them in office again. This cycle repeats over and over."

NOTE: about forgetting... it was only eleven years after the Great Depression ended, till they elected another Republican.

'41 to '52.