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To: Dale Baker who wrote (19017)	5/17/2006 5:02:55 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 543509

People want "another direction" and they think they want solutions to the problems the US faces, but they don't really. Solutions to our nations problems are going to entail some pain. We need to pay more for infrastructure, and we desperately need to jump start our education system to promote math and science - so we have the engineers we need for the future. We need to do something about health care, before it swallows the rest of the economy, and we need to PAY for the things we want- which either means we need to want less, or we need to pay more. We need to pay less for pork- which congressmen and women just can't seem to do. We have a war in Iraq that we aren't going to get out of easily. We have a crisis WRT international goodwill. I suspect we'll soon enter a period of even greater inflation, due to competition with China and India for resources. There is no way a "good leader" could make the solutions to these things sound palatable, and the American people probably can't vote for anyone who tells them a painful truth- which is why the American people get such pitiful leaders. The problems the US faces will take years to solve, and bipartisan commitment - because we need to stay some sort of sensible economic course to get our house in order, and with the presidency potentially changing every 4 years, and congress potentially changing sooner, we don't have the stability we probably need to make the profound changes which would set America on a more stable fiscal and social course. I think even if we had someone get us started (which I don't think we will) the minute the measures we would need to implement started to bite, another administration would come in and scuttle the program.

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