JP the current party in power hasnt done shit. They cant even agree on how to put there pants on in the morning, much less something important like trying to fix the economy. Their most prominent idea has bean to increase the taxes on the wealthy and corperations and to extend unemployment benifits.

Taxing the nations employers more heavely is
not a good way to produce jobs. And extending unemployment and wellfare does not give incentive to try to be productive.

Also the idea of throwing a bunch of money at failing companies is absolutely retarded (both parties are equally guilty). companies fail for a reason.

While I'm not really that interested in American politics, I see some parallels to the German situation.

The economy is in deep shit. That holds world wide. You'd need Hercules or several of him to get a system going again that has been working towards its ruin for decades. Kurt Tucholsky (Russian Writer) has perfectly described the worlds current situation and what has been leading to it including all the crap in the financial sector. He wrote his short poem in 1939 - and we all know where we ended up then, which is just what he foresaw. I could post that poem, but it is in German - if you still like me to, just ask.

So, if any of our current politicians no matter what party they belong to, manage to get the world wide ship going again without pulling the emergency break WAR again, well done. And this will not be done over night, it will take a couple of years of suffering. Read the bible, 7 good years, 7 bad ones. Guess, which we are facing. It is a good prediction IMHO.

Other than that I agree with Shevar that the American constitution and election scheme could need some fresh air. Amateur politicians and electoral delegates were nice with no transportation, no communication and hardly any international affairs. The world has moved from there and so has America and its responsibility. The idea to have an ex-actor controlling the nuclear button is anything but pleasing (Reagan). You did introduce more modern schemes in other countries (e.g. mine, not saying that it is perfect, but not too bad).

Stupid me, Tucholsky was German... judging from the name I was... stupid...

If you can believe it or not I'm actually beginning to bore with playing the "blame game". I personally don't agree with much of what Obama is doing, but I'm ready to see Congress actually work together to fix the problems instead of worrying about the next election. All I heard after last nights elections is whether this democrat or that democrat would vote for the health bill based on whether they thought it would help them keep their "job". Fuck, these aren't jobs, they are elected positions.

"If you can believe it or not I'm actually beginning to bore with playing the "blame game"

You finally opened your mind - congrats.

No clue why you guys keep blaming the other side, but it's just ridicilous. Personally i think it doesn't even matter anymore who you vote for in the US. Puppet from democrats or republicans? Nearly the same on both sides.

bore of the blame game after this reaches 100 posts please

nah, I just squashed your thread. 100 post threads are for me and int...

lol I actually just checked the thread to see if I had a shout out

and there it is.

What I really despise is that our government decided to reward all of these mismanaged companies with billions of OUR dollars in bailouts, while failing to encourage real change or new direction/leadership in these sinking ships.

And with little oversight all that happened was a shit-ton of money was blown through at an alarming rate with these poorly run organizations just crying for more and more and more.

Gee, I could've told them if you throw money on a fire it's going to keep burning, not snuff out the flames.

Meanwhile, organizations in our country that practiced fiscal responsibility aren't being rewarded, we're rewarding the fuckups instead.

How about we reward the people that manage their business well and let the companies that are going to fail do so, instead of applying band-aids that won't fix the core of the problem, but only provide a temporary relief?

srsly grandgnu, you are a retarded fuckhead! but you are partially right on this one. that metaphor in the very middle of your post is pretty stupid though.