[sefarkas]

America has the largest economy in the world; approximately three-times the size of the new #2 announced this morning with great fan-fare. All the pronouncements about the imminent demise of America seem overwrought and repeated by doom-and-gloomers who have been wrong as long as I have been alive. Putting folks back to work and growing the economy will happen under the correct political leadership. Every generation seems to need a Jimmy Carter lesson. The means of putting folks back to work and growing the economy is well known — unleash the small and mid-size businesses, i.e., lower their taxes and mandates, void regulation that force business to create forms and reports no one understands even if they bother to read it at all. Taking business out of the tax collection roll would alone send the GDP figures soaring so that the Chinese will never catch us.

[Murp]

Dittos!!!!!!

[italybub]

But remember the US GNP now includes unproductive items such as lawyers fees, which only artificially inflates the true GNP.