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To: Crony who wrote (587341)	11/8/2015 1:24:29 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By skinowski Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Of course I care what gets done. But Republicans do not get it anymore than Democrats, unfortunately. There is only one issue: The fiscal crisis. Nothing else matters. Unless you can get Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, and the upcoming interest problem under control, nothing else is going to matter. A secondary issue will be dealing with the foreign policy issue in the ME. Even with the total cooperation of Congress the fiscal crisis would consume a full four-year term to resolve; even with that kind of dedication, I rather seriously doubt a solution can be reached. In that instance, a decision has to be made whether to just quit and start planning to minimize the damage. We've got Paul Ryan spending billions on infrastructure in his first couple weeks in office. More money borrowed from the American People and foreign countries. Pointless. You build a bridge, and a few years from now there is no money to keep it up. Like fixing the ceiling in a room before you repair a leaky roof. So, I care, but I am also realistic: we need a president who can focus on trying to resolve the existential issue of a dying economy subsumed by poorly designed social programs. Otherwise, those problems end up at the bottom of the list for another four years. Key in this process is to understand that 2008 can be here again at any moment. Democrat, Republican, doesn't matter. And that will disrupt any effort to address the fiscal crisis. It is a lost cause IMO. But when you're talking about the economic well-being of Americans and others you don't give up prematurely. But it hard to envision a solution.