Is All Well?

Can Bush Save the Dollar's Fall?

GWB: "And one of the things people are watching carefully is, will the United States government put policy in place to stimulate growth without affecting long-term growth? In other words, without passing laws that make it harder for investment, or harder for capital to move, or harder for markets, labor markets, to remain flexible."

Hello,

There is enough blame to go around in the US decline. Nobody is without fault in our national spectrum!

The GOP will never get it in the current leadership. Conventional Democratic idealogy will not make us any more attractive and prosperous. I believe that the WORLD would like a US that is a SAFE PLACE TO INVEST, period. Given the desire of the powers-that-be to limit regulation and enforcement, who in their right mind would want to invest their funds in a fiscal swamp that has been created to benefit a number of rascalous firms and individuals whose devotion is to live the high life, the rest of the country, and world, be damned.

Can this policy be changed? Can the clever economic strategists create a more circumspect system that anticipates, or at least reacts to, outrageous financial manipulation before the populace is ravaged? I think that they can, and should. When is the question? How many elderly will fall to the unscrupulous reverse-mortgage perpetrators, in the name of free enterprise, before our government recognizes the injustice?

There are those that complain that such discussion is not dealing with the economic/business that this site is devoted to. I say that politics is nothing more than economics/business in wolf's clothing as it is now being allowed to play out.

In my opinion, no conventional thinker is going to get elected to our highest office and make a dent in our economic malaise that the rest of the world recognizes and has, for so many years, been forced to play along with. No longer do they need to be dictated to by the almighty dollar. Like it or not, resources (material and human) are no longer the sole province of the US. We need a radical restructuring of our thinking...not simply electing an idealogical pedant as POTUS. If we don't make have the opportunity to make some good choices soon, the USA will have surrendered the greatest asset that has made this country into what a powerhouse we have been for the past forty years...HIGHER EDUCATION.