The fundamental problem is that US are in the midst of the structural crisis.

Since 1960 US are losing their market share to the foreign competition; and since 1970 the home market also. At first it was rebuild post-War Europe, than Japan, than ASEAN, and now China.While US corporations are doing well, in general American Economy steadily is going along the way ,Brittain had gone. You pretty well know that civilian shipbuilding had disappeared, 50% of the heavy industry and still making had gone as well as all textile and garment industries, consumers electronics, etc, the list will be long. The state of automotive industry is obvious. There was hope in 1980 that high tech, financial services, and service industries would substitute traditional economy. However the year Reagan had become the president, IBM presented to the public first realy personal computer; today most computers and it's components are made elsewhere, and even designing of harware and software is outsorced. If Koreans were able to learn how to build ships cheaper and better than American shipyards, there is no doubt other people will learn how to make high tech. In fact Koreans are doing many things already. On the whole Reaganomics as a strategy was a fiasco. High Tech by definition doesn't provide mass employment, it is business where relatively few highly paid employees manufacture items with very high market value. The same is true about Financial Services. As a result most available jobs are Service Industries, i.e. WalMart, McDonalds etc. Reduction of the personal taxes doesn't stimulate economy, to be more precise it stimulates Chineese economy, because most of consumers' goods are manufactured by American corporations in the cheap labour jurisdictions. The only way to revive economy is to reduce corporate taxes, remove burden of the excessive regulation, reduce ilegibility for Welfare only to old, infirm, widows and orphans, and make US once against business friendly. Living in the US you know pretty well, that no politician in the last 50 years had either guts or balls to do it. Reduction in revenues, both on personal and government levels, was covered by borrowing, and exacerbated by introduction of social programs, starting from The Great Society, and by cost of maintanance of the Empire. Roads are fixed, but it is well known secret that Empire State, as well as California, and many others are bancrupt, i.e. their obligations towards pension funds representing state employees exceed revenues and liquidity at their disposal. Of course there always is the way; to tax even more those who have a job still and businesses, with predictable results. If you will look outside Wall Street, for a change, say jump into the car and drive to upstate NY, not Cutskill Mountines, but Buffalo, you will get quite diffent prospective, of the present day of the former American industrial heartland, which collapsed in the good old days of Reagan, and never had recovered. I know what is the cost of Real Estate on the Staten Iland, and I am glad that you can afford it, but economic reality of the MidWest differs from your environment, as much as view from Moscow's penthouse from the landscape in view from the window of the Soviet era house somewhere in Voronezh or Omsk.

Конечно, свинство.

Но свинство, как и идиотизм, полезное.
Писательская деятельность user zvi, как и неподражаемый контент его постов, даёт исчерпывающее впечатление об уровне культуры новой расы господ. Это полуграмотная отвязная сволочь, и сволочь непотоплямая.
МЛХ бОльшую часть программы посвятил гуманитарной проблеме. Одна из первоочередных задач - подготовить население к неизбежному снижению уровня потребления (и шире - уровня притязатий). ZVI-образная публика этого допускать не намерена.

Я тоже обратил на это внимание. Но потом подумал и решил что имеет в виду не размер страны а её экономики.