Our country isn’t producing enough useful things. Energy and agricultural production and revenues are good, but a large and diverse manufacturing base is also needed. But too many interests have effectively outlawed owner-built small housing and new, small manufacturing starts on private properties (planning, building and other regulations, zoning regulations in rural areas). That’s where the new ingenuity needs to come from. Old, global business, politics and academia are rotten to the core.
Our nation is morally bankrupt. Political factions are each wishing the worst for others. Thus, the defaults and many more to come.