>>This country could be fixed easily, if we just quit giving people money for nothing, supported a family environment and cut the spending - across the board.

I understand what you mean, especially about kids with no father figure since their statistics are so stark, but what about the elephant in the room which is the $42trillion Medicare hole? How will you cut Medicare spending- you saw what happened when Obama proposed expert panels to assess whether all treatment options are useful or affordable. Who will be brave enough to try that again?

That's your problem. With today's partisan politics and career politicians, trouble is best deferred for somebody else to worry about after you've moved on and up, especially if change will disadvantage the people who fund your campaigns. That's why you've ended up with a healthcare system whose inputs are the highest in the world by far but which still generates a deficit so big it's beyond most of our comprehension. You may not like Obama but consider that he sacrificed a lot of political capital to try to engineer healthcare reform and he did make a start.

I still think you guys should spend and spend and then inflate your $ hard. It may happen anyway, so you might as well do it now while you still have control. ;-)