Wow, the U.S government really sucks, huh? The Repub & the Dems sucks as well!
No doubt about it!
That's why the U.S. is the world's dominant nation militarily, economically, socially, culturally, politically and in just about every other way imaginable.
While there is no doubt that poor leadership in the past 20 years has led us into a potential economic pickle - one that does threaten our future - don't give me this bullshit that we have an overwhelming history of failing government leadership.
If there is any key point that changed the quality of leadership in this country and started us down the road to ruin, it's the 1994 congressional elections and the whole New Grengrich lead neo-conservative movement.
That's when 'free trade' and 'free market' thinking took over. That's when the U.S. got bought out by China.
We may have had an economic boom back in the 1990s but it was based on the information revolution, tax increases by the Congress in 1993 and massive over extension of credit.
This last decade saw us make idiotic tax cuts - while we had a huge deficit. Continued over extension of credit, continued trade deficits with China, one war that we should never have started, a lack of focus on the war that we should have been focused on, the destruction of the American manufacturing base and a total flow of all wealth into the hands of the wealthiest 1%.
While the Democrats may be a bunch of wishy-washy little girls that are afraid of stepping on anybody's toes, the Republicans are the absolute definition of failure. They are the antithesis of the type of leadership that we need to get us out of this mess. They are the personification of the betrayal of the American dream.
We need protectionism, a tax code that forces the wealthy to invest in high risk, growth oriented industries, an acceptable rate of inflation - to offset the national debt, an end to the nation building strategy in Afganistan and an adoptation of an all out war strategy - end it, end it definitively and end it quickly, a reinstatement of government regulations with enforcement, a completely redefined immigration code, and an end to the philosophy of holding American wages down.
In short, we need radical and decisive leadership. Not a shift to socialism, nor a continuation of the liberatarian philosophy.
In fact we need a revision to the classic and decisive middle-of-the road economic leadership. This is the tradition that made America great.
Only if we drop all these European originated economic philosophies and examine our own history will we find the answers to today problems.