I believe you have it backwards. The root of many of our problems are often social problems, not the economic issues.
Culture is more important than economics. Culture is more important than politics.
A country with a healthy and moral culture can overcome economic and political problems. A country with a diseased and immoral culture is handicapped in addressing other problems.
Many of our economic problems are rooted in our social problems.
Fix the social problems and we will have greater freedom and ability to solve our economic problems.
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Don’t know that he’s #1 with me, but most possible GOP candidates would be acceptable to me. The ship needs to be turned around, and if it’s turned 180 degrees or only 150 degrees, I’m still happy, course correction can come down the road.
On a personal level that is true, but at this point in time for the job of the next Federal leader I don't think so. The President is not primarily a preacher. He is called to help solve our top problems which I believe are now being dominated by fiscal problems.
I think the massive deficit is leading us right now and until we get a smart person to shrink that number social problems will continue to grow. Example: the more Medicare grows, the less responsible people are for their personal decisions and the more family/social ills there will be. I think the role of the next conservative President will be to force us into fiscal responsibility. And as people tighten up on fiscal responsibility a lot of thinking about social responsibility will change.
If the next President can spend most of his time shifting more of the economy to the grass-roots level(and this involves mostly entitlement and/or social spending) I think a lot of healing of the social ills will follow.