The problems of systemic private sector failure of government, power grids, health care, disaster response, bailouts, "stimulus" and failure of systems are now laid at the taxpayers' feet. politico.com/news/2021/02/2…
Trillions were, and are, being thrown at hasty solutions in one of worst tax revenue periods in history (-25%). Obama had to print almost a billion to save corrupt banks in 2008 Biden hasn't even started to calculate what it will cost to fix the damage. ballotpedia.org/State_tax_reve…
Infrastructure, communications, education, the economy, jobs, health care, even fiscal responsibility has been ignored for decades now that we have a lost Covid generation will we bounce back? We need to look seriously at the impact. wsj.com/articles/covid…
It's not just dealing with what happened but how we will change going forward. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Many sectors will not return, many opportunities do exist but we are will need to create a new economic and social model for America. cbpp.org/research/econo…
Not just income inequality. America has gender and race inequality, lost schooling, higher debt, different priorities and a change to rethink classic social and economic goals. thecairoreview.com/covid-19-globa…
In my opinion America's greatest problem is intellectual grid lock in the political system. The cash dependent, bipolar aggression and daily battle for trivial media victories prevents long term, bipartisan social restructuring. An attempt to identify and fix systemic problems.
Conversely America knows how to size up other nation's problems. Pundits rail, think tanks publish, rapid analysis of threats publish, security or relief operations mobilize, professionals deploy to motivate locals and attack problems. rescue.org/article/top-10…
Groups like Team Rubicon, the Red Cross, MSF are built to respond to disasters here and overseas. Yet we have no such teams that can deal with financial, criminal, infrastructure or political problems. We in the era of continual disaster response. teamrubiconusa.org
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