Do you believe that individual wealth in the USA is being destroyed by governmen

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   taburkettposted 10 years ago

   Do you believe that individual wealth in the USA is being destroyed by government policy?
   
   Many of the world's greatest economists and investors have stated that the USA is on the same path as Greece and Spain. What do you think about the destruction that is currently happening? Is the worst yet to come or do you believe that the Administration is correct in saying that the USA is on the path of recovery? Are individuals really better off than we were in 2008? Is it really better to employ fewer individuals in the USA today than we did in 2008? Is it better to have more government policy leading to more debt? What do you think is necessary to restore the American Dream?

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   kschangposted 10 years ago

   The problem is not government policy per se, but rather short-term ness of the policy in question, and the extreme partisanship that developed in the past 10-20 years.
   
   Spending is hardly a problem if one's credit is good and one can pay for it with future income. Yes, US has a lot of debt, but US is not suffering from a credit problem or an income problem... at least in the short term.
   
   It's the extremism in the Republican party that seem to be the primary problem, IMHO. Instead of learning from their defeat to Obama, they seem to have learned the wrong lessons and determined have not antagonized the mainstream enough and wants to go FURTHER to the right, well into tea party territory. Their willingness to hit the fiscal cliff and force the sequester just to spite the democrats is both hilarious and troubling.
   
   The world is changing. Jobs have gone high tech. Yet the tip-top of the world, the uberrich, seem to be the people who don't really "work" (actors, athletes, college drop-out CEOs...) thus people are getting the wrong ideas about how to advance in life. Having so-called "financial gurus" like Kiyosaki feeding you crap like "Conspiracy of the Rich" doesn't help either.  The ubiquity of the media has magnified sections of society and created a distorted image of reality.
   
   So no, the American economy is NOT going the way of the dogs just yet. Keynesian economists says you need to spend to "feed" the economy, then increase taxes when the growth is back, to smooth out the peaks and the valleys.

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      taburkettposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      commercial institutions are formed by individuals and groups to advance the economic venue. US government policies cost exceeds benefits due to discrimination created by them. all politicians use pork-spending to get reelected. Obama is one of those

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