Can you imagine if someone wrote about that tied it all together? from the record consistently high gas prices which could suddenly go much higher at any time now, record budget deficits, free falling dollar, 15% of american manufacturing has been outsourced overseas and of course the record jobs being outsourced, record trade deficits, an economy that is headed towards being a mostly service based economy, record influx of illegal aliens taking jobs and depressng wages, HB1 visa imports of cheap labor instead of investing in educating our children to do those jobs, high drop outs rising, 2 wars going on which look to be very perpetual...iraq alone is soon to reach 2 trillion dollar mark, millions of working americans unable to afford having health inusrance cause health care is unaffordable as well as pharmaceuticals, millions of americans losing their homes due to foreclosures even though interest rates are extremely low, the stock market is lacking confidence yet all I am hearing is temporary band aid solutions, blame some poor sap arguments, and (gulp) some people are even claiming that what we need to do is do more of the very same things in terms of economic/fiscal policies that we have been doing the last several years that have led to this mess in the first place. Why is no one stepping up and being honnest with the american people and calling a spade a spade and advocating serious fundamental change in a new complete direction...almost...starting all over again...and draw up a new economic plan. This path that we are on is not working...ok, its working for some people but not for the country as a whole. After all oil and gas companies have been making record profits and so have pharmaceutical companies..and american companies that do outsource jobs and get access because of it to new markets overseas do have more profits.