[DoctorDulitlBest]

"The government is doing the

best they can."

The question is "at what?"

The problem with economists is that they don't look at the big

picture, tend to stay within a party line, and spout cliches, like about unsolvable tradeoffs.

You'd have to

look at the real causes of prosperity, start to address injustices, and be willing to bring radical change to the

way you do things politically; and with lifestyles. Because the system won't allow this right now; no one even has

the courage and wisdom to call it like it is, get the public in a similar mindframe, and set long term goals. There

would be a violent reaction by the powers that be, including politicians, corporate interests, and the priviledged;

against even talking about what things would need to look like. Even pop culture would rebel. It has to start with

an aggressive push to enlighten people over time. The people doing this teaching would have to have courage,

brilliance, wisdom, and charisma. Unfortunately, to have this kind of effect on thinking in our current culture, you

have to be talking religion. Political and social philosophers -- people carrying on the fundamental level of

discussion that is needed -- are treated like freaks. The deep discussions simply cannot happen. Only preachers and

spiritual leaders are permitted to talk on that level with the masses, and taken seriously, in our culture. The

public would have to get used to thinking in some new ways. Our children are our hope.

But most politicians are

absolute idiots, compared to what they'd have to be. It's all useless cliches marketed to focus groups and the

lowest common denominator. No one has said anything new or had any better insights to offer in the past forty years.

Anyone that has some of these insights to offer gets marginalized. Eventually we will be forced to open ourselves to

new insights, and new ways of thinking about our lives, politics and public systems from the ground up. Right now

few are open to changing they way they think. These people have to die off.

This is of course very little help to

anyone right now. But that's the way it is. No such help is available right now.