The Great Depression 2009

The world today has changed and become a place that few of us alive today recognize. The fact that Bush and his gang of thugs, Cheney, Rumsfield, and Rove have turned the United States into a Third World country and created a worldwide economic depression the likes of which he have never been seen within the history of the mechanized age.

Objectively examining the carnage they have left behind is less of an exercise in logic, than it is watching a horror movie come to life and growing exponentially, as it bears down on all of us.

In retrospect, it would seem that those of us who recognized a problem growing, perhaps should've spoken out louder, however, that became increasingly more difficult with the abridgment by the Bush administration of the Bill of Rights and the constitutional amendments, not to mention basic constitutional guarantees and liberties.

At the start of the Bush administration we had the largest budget surplus in history and at the end the largest debt.

We have spent ungodly sums blowing up the desert and rebuilding it for people that don't like us while at home people are losing their homes and have no health care. I'm all for helping the less fortunate, but to give them all these things at the expense of our own citizens is plain stupid!

With the cascading economic crash of the markets and a never ending war, it became blatantly clear that the Government's fiscal and foreign policies were flawed and being orchestrated by someone who had blinders on with no sense of reality!

We have now lost MORE U.S. lives in Bush's war over WMDs that did not exist, than we did in 9-11!

I, personally, never would have expected to see the world in its current state, short of a major nuclear or biological conflict.

I am like so many other baby boomers, who as we near retirement, find that we have lost everything we have worked for all our lives with no way to recover, and no way to replace jobs, pensions, and homes that we have lost .

There is no way to know for sure how we are going to get out the situation in which we find ourselves. The fact that a group of idiots in Washington can do more damage to this country and the world through their pride, arrogance, and generally sanctimonious self serving attitude, continues to amaze me.

The question remains, what the hell do we do now?