What do you think of this comment about current state of the country?

[jtuck004]

23. There's not one of 'em who understand economics well enough to

know that their philosophies will throw us into a depression.

Despite all the good economic new it is still a fact that millions still face foreclosure, people are still being driven into poverty, and a terrible cross section of good jobs have been replaced with jobs that provide no future, take little training, and force people to fight for meager wages.

Democrats have been pretty adept at kicking the can down the road, shuffling money and increasing debt, (it would take a real jobs program to outgrow our deficits, not just the excuses we are getting, not to mention addressing health care costs which are going to blow all this up in a few years anyway) making a bet that they can keep the worst of it from blowing up while they are in power, and perhaps things will improve in a decade or two.

But the Rethugs seem to not be troubled about that, and are just chomping at the bit to kill government spending and cut rich people's taxes. That is mostly what this economy is surviving on still (it sure aint the consumer, who made up most of it for decades), so they might bring the destruction they seem to so desire.

If we lose elections and what little civil society we have left, if things really break down, there are enough people that would follow some fool in a robe that it could make life extremely difficult. It beats the hell out of doing the hard work with your neighbors by your side. Few people, it seems, who have been slaves and shareholders their entire lives can to break out and demand that they do the hard work of freedom, if my reading of history tells me much. And they get the unpleasant task of fighting not only their oppressors but those who should be on their side.

Kinda like DU, at times