If we intend to repair the nation's finances we need to stop the bleeding, literally and figuratively.  We've thrown so much money down the drain in Iraq that could have been put to better use that its a crime.  Further, these bailouts of the wealthy at taxpayer expense are asinine.  The same money could have been spent on a jobs program to upgrade our failing national infrastructure.  Something like half of our electricity is wasted in a failing grid.  Our roads need endless repair.  Bridges are falling down.  Water and sewer networks in many cities are a hundred years old and we can see from the present example of Zimbabwe what happens when they fail.  Imagine something like their Cholera outbreak in Manhattan where the water system is buried and crumbling and you can see how disruptive this would be and the enormous cost in human health it would exact.  It's crazy.  Why must we wait for disaster to fix our failed systems?  Are Americans truly so selfish and short-sighted that we think this is a constructive way to build a future?  Obscene.
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