Reply #14: Why do want to talk down the economy? I could understand [View All]

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a Republican. One of the main roadblocks to economic recovery is consumer confidence, why the gloom and doom. From my experience the early 80s were worst than today. I can't be a Democrat and be concerned about the debt. You aren't concerned about the debt? You have millions of us baby-boomers starting to retiree and trillions of dollars are going to be required to keep SS and Medicare solvent and no plan what so ever to fix the problem. We have had to bail out the financial system and the auto industry costing us trillions of dollars and you aren't concerned about the debt and spending. In my opinion the debt is the biggest threat America faces today by far. I don't understand how any public works project you come up with is going to help today. Like I said any project such as high speed rail would take 20 plus years before a shovel full of dirt is turned over. In my opinion all that money that was given to Wall Street would have been better spent if it was just divided up and given to each taxpayer.