An agenda for recovery from Bush.

Talkleft extracted the elements from the NY Times article entitled "The Must-Do List." Here is the list of things that have to be done to recover from the Bush/Cheney/NeoCon administration.

• Restore Habeas Corpus
• Stop Illegal Spying
• Ban Torture, Really
• Close secret prisons,
  
• Account for the ghost prisoners,
  
• Ban extraordinary rendition,
  
• Tighten the definition of enemy combatant,
  
• Fairly screen prisoners,
  
• Ban secret and tainted evidence,
  
• Better define "classified evidence" and
  
• Respect the right to counsel.

Those are mostly all recovery efforts to problems caused by the Bush administration adn the conservatives. I'd also add:

• Get us out of Iraq and quit wasting American lives there.
• Get serious about the world-wide Counter-Terrorism effort ASAP.
  
• Start cleaning the NeoCon moles out of the Federal Government.
• Reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine" for all broadcast media.
  
• Get serious about taking care of the disabled military veterans, physically, mentally, and financially. Their families also.
  
• Audit and investigate the contractors who have had contracts with the military or the Intelligence Agencies active since 1994.
• Ensure that the systems of taking voting results and tabulating them are as close to tamper-proof as possible.
  
• Provide more serious support for training in college and work training for life.
  
• Implement a health-system that includes government guaranteed 100% coverage. Base this on community pricing instead of exclusions for prior health conditions so that along with 100% coverage, everyone pays the same premiums.
  
• Standardize the systems for applying for health care services so that clerks have to learn only one system to get reimbursement.
• Develop a general nationwide system that provides medical information on everyone similar to the one used by the VA system.
  
• Reestablish corporate income taxes, progressive individual taxes for the high income and the estate tax to pay for these programs.
  
• Follow the above up with getting control of spending and approach balancing the budget. [Note - the above healthcare reforms are expected to throw off extra funds that can be used to pay for them after the initial costs.]

This is only a start. A lot more needs to be done.