[clee1]

I can agree with that.....

The root cause, as you so aptly state, is our Government. We the People have, through apathy, allowed a political class and their bureaucratic henchmen to rule our very lives down to the minutest detail.

My comments contain no wish to “punish” other Nations. It is simply to deeply and irrevocably shock the average American citizen back to reality - and in the process restore our Nation. I have no ill will toward the average Chinese or Arab (or anybody else for that matter). I just want our People and our Government to focus on OUR best interest.

That’s going to require a very rude shock to the average citizen.

[amorphous]

I agree. It's going to take a huge shock to get us motivated to make the required changes here in the USA. We sometimes talk past one another (I heard Trump make this same statement just the other day), but in reality we mostly want the same thing.

Big government prostituting itself to the highest bidder is one of our biggest problems. That kind of government is worse than no government at all.