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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Whoa! How many issues can we address at once, Steve? If we intend to multi-task in our discussion of issues that don't seem to favor Americans, I might add immigration reform and campaign finance reform to the list.
Let's see...can we even effectively discuss healthcare reform, trade policy and immigration and campaign financing all at the same time? We might be able to, but I'm afraid such an agenda would put Congress in a state of apoplectic gridlock.
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My point is that the reasons WHY we have these problem areas are never resolved, and in almost every circumstance the road to root cause of the problem areas seem to take us back to a declining economy tied to lousy international trade policies and agreements. Fix those and the economy booms, workers get better salaries and benefits, tax revenue increases, and we move merrily long.
Health care, immigration, energy et al are diversions, because both parties seem to make political capital out of avoiding the WHYs because they both are at fault.
I rarely agreed with President Clinton, but his revelation that "
It's the economy, stupid!" was bluntly accurate. That revelation still stands. Fix that and everything else gets fixed with it.
The methodology of "Change" in this administration and the last has been like saying the car won't run right, so they change the windshield wipers, realign the headlights and empty the ash trays, but never seem to notice that the engine has blown.