No friend to America's workers

George Bush broke America's economic and social bonds. We'll be paying for these mistakes long after he's gone

Sasha Abramsky
guardian.co.uk,
Friday 16 January 2009 15.00 GMT

It's hard to know how to say farewell to an administration as awful as George Bush's. Do you boo its members as they leave Washington? Do you cheer their exit and do a little dance of glee that they won't be around to spin gold into excrement anymore? Or do you sit down and quietly try to work out the scale of the damage they left in their wake?

I guess I will be doing a little of all three. And as a journalist, I'll also be slightly rueful. After all, for someone interested in social justice issues, there was never a shortage of topics to write about these past several years.