I think I pretty much agree with all your points. I did not mean that the government had to create jobs directly just that they need to create a situation where others can create them and right now the government seems to be actively getting in the way of job creation and yet there doesn't seem to be any way to fix this since both parties do it and that just makes me depressed and leave me to believe that the basic system is flawed and some sort of large or small scale fix is needed to make congress work together so the country will become stable and people will start creating jobs again. I hope I have made myself clear now. Sorry for any confusion,I have just been out of work for two years and am feeling really depressed at this point. From my POV things are looking kind of hopeless at this point:(

Yeah I guess you are right. I just wish we had some way to make the government do what is right for the people they are supposed to work for but with both parties more interested in blaming each other then working on the problems it is looking pretty hopeless. I think both parties have put us into a tailspin we can't get out of. They have such a stranglehold on power I am not sure the situation can be fixed with out first destroying the government and building a whole new one. What form the new one should take is up for debate but i think it's clear the two party republic has failed the people and those in power have no interesting in fixing this nation's problems. Meanwhile millions sit without jobs and have their lives stalled while rich people who have never even met a working class person in their lives continue to fight and make laws that just make things worse. While communism may not be the answer I don't see how you can say the United States is anything but a failure when it comes to serving the needs of it's citizens.

One system I can think of that could work is that congressman and the president only get paid if the majority of people vote in favor of paying them after their term is up. That way if they want to make money they have to do a good job for the people who elected them in the first place. It's not a perfect system but it seems like it would give us more power over them then we have at the moment. I don't know it seems like something needs to change because the system is just broken and our "leaders" are doing everything in their power to destroy the country and hurt the people they are supposed to represent. Right now the United States is a complete disaster if you ask me and it doesn't seem like anyone in power is interested in fixing it.

Yeah I guess I am just getting tired of all the infighting in congress. The people of this country don't seem to have any power to make them work together and yet when they refuse to work together it's the people not congress who pays the price. I think we need some sort of new system or an adjustment of the one we have because everyone in congress keeps acting like spoiled brats. I wish there was a way to make congress do without pay or live in a low income section of the country where there are not any jobs,then maybe they would work for the good of the people instead of themselves and screwing the tax paying voters over every chance they get just for the laughs.

But the fact is whatever problems the communist system has it does create jobs unlike the system in the US. If the US is going to survive we need to get the jobs back and that means beating China at their own game so that business will want to bring the jobs back here. If we continue doing what we are now we will just keep sending all the job overseas until there is nothing left in this country. The United States is a failure as a nation and everything to do with our system should be scrapped.

Maybe I do mean socialism but the fact remains that if China called in all of it's IOUs the United States would fall apart. If China is so much worse off then how come they have a surplus of both money and jobs? Why does the US need China's money if we are such a great power. It's clear business don't like the system the United States has otherwise they would be creating jobs here instead of china. I think all the infighting in congress just makes things worse. That is why I think whatever you call the system in china we need it here and we need to get rid of congress. Congress does no one any good and we would all be better off with a stable government that isn't fighting over every little issue. Also if China is doing so poorly how come they are about to overtake the US's number one spot in the world? I just don't get how anyone can say China isn't doing better then the US given the stories we hear on the news every day.

Well how about a system where if congress fails to reach an agreement within a certain amount of time on an issue(like the fiscal cliff)then the executive can just ignore them and apply whatever solution seems best to him or her? That way Congress would still exist but if they wanted any power they would have to work together and do the people some good instead of getting in the way.

Well then if that is true it seems the solution for fixing this dying country is to get rid of congress. They have never done anyone any good any way. All they do is get deadlocked and cause trouble. I say we either need a one party system or just get rid of congress and let the executive and the courts make the laws. What we have now clearly doesn't work and the average tax payers are the ones who are paying the price for congress refusing to get along.

Okay I am taking some of your points I would just like some more details because it seems from a standpoint of job creation and military strength China is doing a lot better then the US. Also most US companies get everything from China these days and the United States only survives because China loans us money. To me all these things point to China doing a lot better then the USA and it seems to me that looking at these facts China will be a super power for at least the next hundred years and the United States will be lucky if it is even still around in a decade.

Well whatever you happen to call it,the fact remains that China is the power that rules now and the future lies with them. So the question still is why are we not following their lead and becoming just like them? I mean clearly things like limiting couples to having one child and only allowing one political party along with stronger control of the press help keep China stable and are the reason that they are the land of the future. Why shouldn't the United States adopt those same policies and become strong like China and get the jobs back in our country?