Record of the 43rd President-summary

A brief summary by Hendrik Hertzberg in current New Yorker:

 

"It includes an unending deficit--this year, it's $260 billion--that has already added $ 1.5 trillion

to the national debt; the subcontracting of environmental, energy, labor, and healthcare policymaking

to corporate interests (profit); repeated efforts to suppress scientific truth; a set of economic and

fiscal policies that have slowed growth, spurred inequality, replenished the ranks of the poor and

uninsured, and exacerbated the insecurities of the middle class; and, on Capitol Hill, a festival of

bribery, some prosecutable, some not (such as the reported two-million-dollar salary conferred

upon a Republican congressman who became the pharmaceutical industry's top lobbyist immediately

after shepherding into law a bill forbidding the government to negotiate prices for prescription

drugs.

 

In 2002 and 2004, the ruling party avoided retribution for offenses like these by exploiting the fear

of terrorism."

 

Lots of horrible things not mentioned like execution of rendering and support of torture that would

have imprisoned you for at least 25 years after World War II;and, the butchering of our constitution and

citizen rights.

 

Hertzberg does mention that this all could not have been done without "the indispensable help of a

complaisant Congress".