Get's a little tiresome over the years, watching the fingerpointing that is. One party get's dominant and everyone blames them for everything that goes wrong, and after another election or two the other party gets dominant, and then they get blamed for everything, another election and the other party is back, and so on and so on... blah blah blah.
I've got no confidence in either party to solve anything, both parties are full of sold out wh-res who are beholden to whichever deep pocket is donating the most too their campaigns, typically unions and lawyers to the Dems, and big business to the Repubs. The interests of us little guys are not that important to them, and if you believe otherwise I feel sorry for you. Maybe if we could find a better way to fund election campaigns, this could change, but for now it is "pay for play".
And when it comes to us little guys, they mainly tell us what we want to hear, not what we need to hear. Social Security is a problem that will become a crisis someday, as there isn't enough money to fund retiree benefits in the future. But no politician wants to talk much about it, because if they tell us we need to figure out a way to pay for it now (higher taxes) or rely on it less (decreased benefits), we won't vote for them. Bush got beat up pretty bad a few years ago when he tried to discuss social security reform. So we wait until it becomes a huge crisis, and then we'll try to figure something out, all the while people will be saying "why didn't we do something 10 years ago when the answer and costs would have been easier??", mark my world, you don't need a crystal ball to see that will happen.
A country is successful and wealthy when it has good resources and uses those resources. Our country became dominant in this world because we had a lot of resources and developed a large manufacturing base to use those resources. We seem to not want to use our resources any longer, because of real or perceived environmental damage, we can't drill for oil even in a desolate largely barren tundra (ANWAR) even though similar drilling in the north slope several decades earlier didn't do much harm, we don't want to harvest our trees, mine for our ore, etc. Instead we buy from other countries. We offshore manufacturing to other countries to save a few bucks and to escape government regulations.
We were doing pretty well developing technology in recent times, but now we seem to be offshoring R&D and design work in technology more and more to places like India.
How does our economy continue to prosper if we continue on this path? Where will the jobs be?
Like them or not, the big three have provided good livings either directly or indirectly to hundreds of thousands of Americans. Their problems directly or indirectly hurt all of us. Somehow I hope they can be saved.
And we can all try to help by attempting to buy American products as much as possible.
