Mr Khan said:
ssj12 said:
mrstickball said:
FaRmLaNd said:
Will Paul and this Johnson guy fix america? Who knows?
But what I do know is that staying the course isn't going to solve your countries problems in regards to creating a surplus for example. Beyond that I really shouldn't speculate because I don't know enough about the US political system to have a clue.
But doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome has never worked.
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Fixing America is going to take a decade or two of very motivated people willing to sacrifice dearly and live contently to get us to where we need to be.
However, I think that Paul, Johnson or anyone willing to do the right things can at least start the process. Or, we can always implode on ourselves, and fix it the old fashion way via revolution (not saying armed, but in a general sense of political upheval)
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That will most likely happen sadly. We will probably get Trump in the white house based off our country's luck as of the last 10 or so presidents (how ever many since Eisenhower, i think he was the one before shit started rolling down hill).
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Eisenhower's day, debt was low, the economy was mostly booming (cyclical stop-start issues throughout the late 50's, but the general trend was upward) the middle class was growing, unions were powerful and pervasive, and the tax rates on the wealthy were 70%
Almost utopian, if not for all the racism, sexism, anti-communist paranoia, and pervasive smoking
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Sad thing is, much of what made the 50's successful also doomed the times after it to failure.
The 50's saw the baby boom, which brought a lot of tranformation when those youth grew up, which made our crime rates rise about 4 fold over a 15 year period. We haven't even recovered from it entirely, and we lost (IMO) a bit of freedom in combating the criminals.
