No matter what King George and the Republicans say, our economy sucks. It sucks hard. It’s been mediocre at best, no matter what Ed Gillespie or anyone else says. Iraq is wasting 15 billion a month, meanwhile our infrastructure is falling apart and our economy is teetering on collapse. Weak dollars is supposed to boost our exports, but that’s not happening. Why? The answer is obvious isn’t it. We’ve spent decades deindustrializing. There’s nothing to export.
Our economy has very real structural problems, and there’s no reason to believe that they’re going to be fixed soon, let alone in time to avoid a depression. Hell, given the flack that Obama has caught for stating the obvious truth that people are “bitter” about the loss of jobs and the state economy, there’s no reason to believe that anyone democrat or republican has the wherewithal to fix the economy. They don’t even want to admit that something is very very wrong here.
Our boat is sinking, and no one in charge even wants to take the time to rearrange the deck chairs.