While I certainly agree the bankers are vastly overpaid and the level of protection they get from the two parties is beyond appalling, that is nothing compared to the level of government spending.
The spending increases since the start of 2007 are beyond insane. There is no justification for the continued spending at the peak levels of 2009. We can easily go back to spending levels of 2006.
Outspending revenue by over a TRILLION dollars a year is moronic... at best.
Once again and with all due respect, what would you propose? The word 'trillion' is a wonderfully emotive word and a great manipulator of the masses.
All I hear from the right is that government is too big, the debt is to big. Well, what have you done to find out why? What have you done to research and demand answers?
Frankly if all you are prepared to do is sit on your arse staring blankly at Fox news, night after night, and cursing people you are told to curse then you really don't have a shout.
How, for instance, would you make sense of the fact that your economy is financing wars round the globe at huge cost but, at the same time, is profiting enormously from such?
How can you brag and boast about being a modern economy and at the same time complain about the investment that makes it possible.
The fact is that your government and most other governments, (and in the end it must be the governments), were caught short in 2008 and are doing their best to right the situation. Party politics play a very minor part in this.
The 'How-to -Put-an-Economy-Straight' book is missing the final chapter because no one has had to face this problem before.
What you have to do now, whether you are right, left or centre, is stop the polarisation of your country, stop the ridiculous in-fighting, stop the 'I'm American so I can do what the hell I like' attitude and support those people who know better than you.
If you think you know better then I suggest you stand for election.
