Sure there are, as long as your goals are realistic (IOW, no 'instant fix' to 5% unemployment within a year)and policies are sensible - reducing corporate taxation, deficit spending and government waste will make dramatic economic improvements if done competently - both our neighbors Canada and Mexico are doing much better than the US relatively speaking at this point in time with more sensible fiscal and monetary policies.
People were saying just about what you were during Jimmy Carter's latter days, and looked how that turned out after a year or so of economic austerity. To say that the US is in some sort of unique economic 'graveyard' is basically only defeatism.
Even IF we can right our ship of state, the rest of the world is tumbling around us.
In short; it's a depression, folks, not a recession. The sooner we accept that, the easier it will be to mop up when the contraction is complete.
Even IF we can right our ship of state, the rest of the world is tumbling around us.
In short; it's a depression, folks, not a recession. The sooner we accept that, the easier it will be to mop up when the contraction is complete.