We all are connected to this. The 2012 vote (at all government levels) could well be our last chance to pull out of this. The states are showing conservatives in WI we mean business and they in turn are showing the rest on the Hill what a backbone is and what must be done.
Rationally I just can’t see how we are not already past the point of no return. We’ve grown generations of takers who think they are entitled to other peoples work. I see no indication they will change their ways no matter the cost to the country. If they are going to lose their entitlements, they’re determined everyone else lose what they have too.
I don’t know the above is certain so I hope there’s some way out not yet seen. But I’m pretty hard pressed to believe there is.
What we’ve been doing for decades is clearly unsustainable. It’s irrational, but we refuse to stop. As if magically all that accumulated debt that we continue to pile on daily will just go quietly into the night. That the endless regulation extracting only a little blood on each strike won’t really affect our jobs or our standard of living. That taking from those who “can afford it” and giving it to those more deserving will improve our standard of living. That we can create wealth by paying more for less using “green” technology to solve a problem with little if any evidence it exists.
We’re to appoint that it will take a miracle, literally, to recover from.