Our economy sucks!

This economy is a tough thing to swallow. Everyday, as America plunges worse and worse into the economy reality we have allowed to occur, we, the citizenry, are learning that it is almost too late to course correct and a tax refund check is very Weimar Republic all over again.

No politician wants to dissuade voters from returning them to their post but the reality is overwhelmingly glum. We all have fun with paying little or nothing for things only to have the consequences erode the ideals of our country. While at once we want to pay $2 for a gallon of gas, we don't cry foul enough for the devaluation of the dollar due to borrowing more than we take in. A nation cannot afford to run deficits forever. It is like refinancing ones home every month rather than making a payment.
No one politician gets on the stump and gives us the reality of the economy. It's too hard to swallow. You can't tell people that their tax dollars, those that they grow angrier everyday about, don't cover what they were supposed to. And far be it for them to tell us that roads and sewers and power lines cost money. The truth is masked to win votes while real issues are swept aside to keep power, plain and simple.
When a politician is willing to admit that we need to tighten our belts and cut programs, both popular and not, then we can start to undo the damage done by the political machine.
We deserve better because we are better. We once had principles, at least in theory, and we constantly tell ourselves that we are the best. During the Great Depression our government and the people pulled us out of the mud and put pride back into our hearts. Even if we are a divided people, we can learn to accept the middle ground and work together to recover.

Let's work together, what do you say?