Simply put; manufacturing of durable goods, developement of enery resources, and agriculture are big examples of this. The fed gov has spent the last 40 years writing UNFree Trade agreements that have sapped our middle income jobs. These agreements are "fast tracked" by allowing the President to single handedly dole out our job infrastructure to other nations with "no Congressional oversight". According to the Constitution it is Congresses duty to oversee and approve or disapprove these trade agreements. That's called taking a position, something our DC Hot Air Generators are reluctant to do.

Working in "fascist" lockstep with our fed gov are the tycoons of big business. They have eaten the "seed Corn" Hilton Head speaks of by selling off our infrastructure to cheap labor markets, thus allowing those countries to perform the exact "value added" work we used to do – which makes those countries, like Communist China and India, for instance, richer and more upwardly mobile. Meanwhile, our so very PATRIOTIC wealthy business owners are getting richer transfering this labor and related technology. This has caused the middle class death spiral in the US.

By the way, most of these American Shylocks are incorporated offshore or in the State of Delaware to escape paying taxes to our National Treasury.

The congenitally shameless kids on Wall Street have nothing "value added" to offer our economy. They are just currency multipliers by profession and they are not very smart! They are very sly. They are eating your and my lunch.

Forget the dizzy details and partisan politics and understand just this one point if nothing else: in the mid 1970's the upper 10% of Americas wealthy own 49% of her assets. In 2005, this same upper 10% owned 77% of the countries assets.

Now; ask yourself again if it was the donkey or the pachaderm that ripped you off? Let's pull our collective heads out of our butts and tell the conservatives the liberals the truth about their intramural manipulations. They are not the least bit interested in you or I. They are interested in their personal gain and reelection only! And, oh yeah, they want to control your perceptions through the large corporate mass media, where clowns abound on all sides of the political spectrum..

Thank you for expressing your opinion. Thank you further for allowing me to express mine. As a former soldier representing America in Vietnam, I firmly believe that ALL of us should be prepared to die for OUR shared freedoms.

If a friend was in debt from spending unwisely, I would not help out by giving him/her more money. I would help stop the the bad habit. Downsize, sell assets, do without. For myself, I'm doing just that now. As a fourtunate "winner of life's lottery" ( Rich Gephart ) I sold my house in 2007, stopped woking (paying taxes) and am renting a small comfortable place to wait out this disgrace of leadership.

I'll repeat – Republicans borrow and spend so as not to upset their anti tax base. That bill gets forwarded to our children and grandchildren. Democrats tax and spend. They ask the citizens to pay as you go.

I don't like either one – but I love my kids and grandkids better than the Republicans appear to. My Pop always said to pay your bills.

Lastly, many of your responders seem concerned about National Security in the midst of all this! As a Vietnam Veteran, I assure you that the former administration had a very different personal position on national security when they (Bush and Cheney) were capable of serving! Neither party holds a lock on National Security performance. Least of all, talking heads on the Radio!