Bush's " Legacy" will be the Economic downfall of the US

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Couldn't have executed it better than if it had been the plan in the first place.

Plunder the middle class? Check!

Weaken the dollar? Check!

Transfer assets of corporations to upper tier? Check!

Transfer national wealth to military industrial complex? Check!

Weaken social safety nets? Check!

Sell off assets of US to the wealthy and the connected? Check!

Tamp down wages through phony labor and inflation statistics? Check!

Deregulate mortgages and asset based securities and cause rampant housing inflation? Check!

Allow rampant profiteering in health care system leading to personal bankruptcies? Check!

Artificially keep down interest rates to depress savings? Check!

What's left on the To-Do List?

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. "What's left on the To-Do List?"

Seize control of whatever is left afterward. It's easy to win when your opponent is desperate. They'll even thank you for an advance from your next year's tax refund.

This is called "creating causes and conditions". The same way disaster capitalists profit from war, they profit in terms of increased social control.

The CIA (daddy Bush) has for years been using techniques to destablize and control other countries. Why is it so surprising that some would eventually turn such against America, if they wanted to own and control America?

[TahitiNut]

3. Privatizing Social Security will continue to be the Holy Grail of the corporatists.

Trillions of dollars ... makes their tongues ache with covetousness.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Yep. Never forget that Bush -toured the country- for six months on that one.

During "wartime". Shows where his priorities are. I look forward to seeing how they next attempt to tap that reservoir.

[Warpy]

2. Militarize police departments and give them weapons

that would be classified as torture devices by a sane country to use on a population that starts to complain, check.

The only thing left to do is start another world war to decrease the population they no longer need as worker bees. If it doesn't bring the Rapture in which all the rich will be sucked up into heaven, it will serve its purpose by killing most of us off.

They do speak openly of "culling the herd," you know. If we're not directly involved in creating more paper wealth for them, we're expendable.

[nancyr]

6. That is what I think.

Old geezers like me are expendable. Just a drain on their resources.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Implement take over of the US Gov't....under guise of Terra...Bush forever....

[AzDar]

7. It's "Mission Accomplished!"for the Anti-FDR.

:puke:

[Hydra]

8. Who says there wasn't a plan?

As others stated, I think next on the list is some population culling here in the US. Katrina was a good trial run, and no riots came of it.

Full speed ahead! Next stop: Hell.

[graywarrior]

9. I wish they gave tours of HELL because I'd love to go see him burning in it.

[Thepricebreaker]

10. No it won't... There is soooo many other things...

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. I think the economic downfall was a long time in the making.

Beginning with Nixon. Then again, shrub has a way about him that brings any potentially disastrous situation to a head rapidly.

[Krueg235]

13. The price of oil is no doubt a major force in the inflation

, but this ties to many administrations.

[Riley133]

14. You are correct. It started in the 70's. Not excusing the messes Dubya made - just sayin'. nt

[jesus_of_suburbia]

12. AND NOTHING COULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE.

This past 8 years have been the darkest years of my life as far as faith in my country.

And I LOVE my country. I just hate the past 8 years.