We have around 9% unemployment, with far larger underemployment, a deficit that is spiraling out of control, and a foreign policy that is quickly alleinating our few allies left. The direction we are moving in, is one of utter failure.<----

Quick note. Don't you think in the History of America, that this current scenario should have happened more than once before? I mean, in a grander scheme, isn't what we do in a political sense always going to lead to this turn of events that spirals a nation out of power, just becasue of teh sense of ebb and flow that is part of any government.

Europes debt crisis is horrid IIRC, and they dont have repubs and Dems, but they have political parties and its just a hot mess over there. Fact is, no matter who you elect, this had been a problem created by men from both sides of the cloth, pre 97 :/ That surplus budget was in fact due to a bit of dealings that inevitably led to where we are now :/ This is why I can't honestly vote based on reform ideas.....they don't have a true clue what their actions will do.