Jim Kunstler asks a very good question. And Peacenik is afraid that the answer is that there is no answer. Politicians in the U.S.A are not able to solve the problems that Kunstler lists in the article below. And the soon too be elected Tea Partiers only offer solutions that will make the problems worse. Peacenik thinks lots of Tea Partiers will get elected tomorrow. Is this the beginning of this sucker going down bigtime? Can the U.S.A and world economy be saved? Peacenik doesn't think so. Do you?
On Tuesday, when the Republican Party and its Tea Party chump-proxies re-conquer the sin-drenched bizarro universe of the US congress, they'll have to re-assume ownership of the stickiest web of frauds and swindles ever run in human history - and chances are the victory will blow up in their supernaturally suntanned, Botox-smoothed faces.
But don't cry for John Boehner, Barack Obama.
The President and his Democrats may have inherited this clusterfuck from the feckless George Bush but they flubbed every chance to mitigate any part of it, ranging from their failure to restore the rule of law in banking (by prosecuting the executives of major banks who oversaw the systematic swindle), to mis-directing our dwindling resources toward ends (such as "shovel-ready" new super-highways) that won't promote a credible future for this society, to misleading the public in the fantasy that alt-energy will offset the disruptions of peak oil (and allow us to keep running suburbia, the US Military, and WalMart by other means).
