"America"

So according to my grandfather, the three big issues with America right now and why shit's gone so bad lol:

1 We don't produce here anymore, it's all China
2 We put too much into paying the American bureacracy and those who work it (politicians)
3 Welfare supports like 60 million people (wtf lol)

As for myself, I think it also has to do with the fact everyone wants a high paying and easy service job (that produces little) and takes a college education. I believe in college educations, but not when everyone wants to be the same stuff. Who wants to be a plumber anymore? That's an important job, and it would help if they got paid better too. People don't want to be farmers anymore either. It's all lawyers and doctors and engineers. Let's face it, not everyone is cut out to be a lawyer, doctor, or engineer. And all those people chillin' on welfare and unemployment checks, there should be jobs being made at the basic level for them, such as factory workers, farmers, and labor.

As those jobs are established, those industries support population growth (which adds to unemployment naturally) by providing resources and base jobs and the expansion of other idustries, making more advanced less basic jobs come to fruition. Look at Rome, they stopped farming and producing and started outsourcing much like we are doing now, and they got beat, beat by those they outsourced to even (the barbarians and such), like China (who is whoopin' our arse).

Another thing is all the money we give away to other countries. We cannot afford to be doing that. And we need to think of ourselves first. It's real nice giving away money to those less fortunate. But you got to think if it's a good idea if your in really bad friggin' debt lol. It's another story if your bathing in money.

Stop giving money away. And start building from the ground up. Back to basics. No fancy strategies and solutions.