Newsweek had several interesting ideas that could help pull our economy out of this recession we are having. The first article is some suggestions by Fareed Zakaria who suggested three simple ways we could eliminate our national debt. Read the article, Defusing the debt bomb. Then Evan Thomas Jumped in and pointed out that our political system is at a standstill because of our selfishness. The article is called We the Problem. I especially liked this paragraph:
"The problem is not the system. It's us—our "got mine" culture of entitlement. Politicians, never known for their bravery, precisely represent the people. Our leaders are paralyzed by the very thought of asking their constituents to make short-term sacrifices for long-term rewards. They cannot bring themselves to raise taxes on the middle class or cut Social Security and medical benefits for the elderly. They'd get clobbered at the polls. So any day of reckoning gets put off, and put off again, and the debts pile up."
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