Sign UpConnect and share with the people in your life. As a former Republican and current Independent, I will respond to your request for input. We Americans got ourselves into this mess (the rich, the middle class, the poor, the young, the old, the men, the women). We as a nation, and personally, had been living beyond our means while financing fruitless wars on two fronts. Thus, each group will have to sacrifice to begin a real and ongoing recovery. This will take time, patience, and a spirit of unity as a nation. Are we up to this? I hope so but am skeptical because of the rigid and narrow stands taken by so many of us. It's time to think past our own narrow interests and work together for a common cause or we will go down in history as a once shining city that slid down the hill.
Judy Turner