There is a reason we do not have an abundance of doctors to fill or even overflow the medicinal occupational units that would serve to help take care of all the sick and needy. The reason is that the resources required to train individuals to have the ability to hold and uphold the responsibilities of these positions to a sufficient degree are scarce and sorely needed in many other fields. Similarly, we cannot have every voter educated to know what kind or type of decision would be most beneficial. As stated above (I shall paraphrase), the rise of publicly elected positions in the federal reserve will cause problems as there could be many occasions when incapable but articulate and smooth individuals are elected to positions of utmost importance. I don't think I need to further dwell on possible and probable consequences that may arise from this because these can be easily imagined.

Yes, we should ban bottled water. It is a very economical course of action that will help to conserve our resources. :)

Simply said, the pro-spanking side defaults loss due to wrong word choice. The instigator of this topic should have written it as: Is spanking child-abuse? or Is spanking a child abusive? or Should corporeal punishment be privately endorsed in any familial unit?

United State's economic problems cannot be blamed on any specific unit. This is because an economy's performance is affected by the occurrences of an infinitesimal number of events that work together to facilitate certain results. Even now, the causes of the Great Depression nearly eighty years ago are still being analyzed and debated actively by economists. Was it just the crash of the stock market? or was it the dominance of a decade of bull marketing? Was it the banks' over-investments? or should the blame be put on the government's faulty strategies/policies? There are quite a few more factors that can be listed, but these should suffice in helping me prove my point. The answer is simple. None of them are solely or even largely responsible for the 1930's recession. The problem was caused by the combination of many integral factors and units. We could even factor the US middle class into the at-fault category (going-into-debt investments, aiding in overproduction, facilitating bankruns, etc.) In short, what we need to do is to analyze the problem reasonably and in terms of economics (because economics controls politics ;)). We cannot really blame any one office, unit, or person for all of our problems. That would be blatant scapegoating. I'd like to hear your thoughts too. :)

A better question to ask would be which US political party's policies do you think is better at supporting/augmenting the economy? Republicans vs. Democrats. Creating jobs is too much of a small subcategory of the larger picture.