I was feeling the same way.

I am sure there is a solution, but not to sure that anyone has a good idea of what it is and where it is and how to fix it. But Yoda and VK are on right course.

SteveZ as always has very good input. ALso all the money we spend on IRAQ and rebuild their schools and country. Add all that up since it has started and tell me what you come up with. As far as the auto industry. They need to change and have needed to change for a long time. Got to move ahead with cars that do more than 0-60 in a blink of the eye. I dont care who says what, i believe it is a waste of more money to bail out the auto companies. as with the stimulus money, just because you bail out the auto big guys, dont mean we are buying them. The last thing I want to do right now is buy another vehicle. The way things are going, most people are just like me and dont want to take money out of their pocket so fast for expensive car that cost as much to operate as it does to pay each month in most cases.

The answer lies with in. sit back and think of what the problems are. I believe SteveZ gave us a few of them. Now what would you do to fix them. Take Illegal Immigration. Lets fix that issue now. Easily said then done. We got to have so many meetings in so many places with so many people just to schedule a real meeting. Then you got to have the right venue, then you got to schedule a report on the meeting you just held. Oh did i forget about the budgets for all the meetings? Then when you get all this information all input to program and do you spreadsheets, then you realize, is this an election year or is this going to **** some poeple off? Then it gets put on the back burner. That is how it is done in DC? Come on, even Fred Thompson noted that in a speech he gave years back. He said nothing gets done in congress. To many meetings just to put something on the calendar. Then if it is going to be unpopular with the people you reperesent, you axe the deal.

That is the problem, if you know what the root cause is, no one wants to chop that root off. THE DAY YOU GET SOMEONE TO PULL OUT A BIG AXE AND HAVE THE *&$%)* TO SWING THE AXE, YOU WILL SEE PROGRESS.. excuse my little additives there....