The consensus outlook for the U.S. economy is, to put it mildly, pretty bleak. The boomers are retiring, the debt-fueled consumer-spending binge of the 2000s has ground to a halt with nothing to replace it, and American manufacturing workers are trapped in a brutal competition with hundreds of millions of cheap, eager workers from all over the developing world. Worst of all, as (...)
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Boom Times Ahead?
Probably. But Will Washington Make the Most of Them?
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Well, clearly if we took a WPA/CCC approach to our infrastructure needs, we would quickly grow out of these doldrums and begin to rev up the engine of the economy. The problem is that, for political reasons, the corporacracy has gone "all in" to defeat President Obama and will not budge in their caterwauling about deficits and spending and taxes until they have their own president elected. Then it is still doubtful that this group of crass operators will even then reconsider investing in America or ever enabling labor to have power again. Natural gas will not save us only a country united in purpose can overcome the devastation that has brought us so far down.