[sam_paine]

TheWriterTX: It will definitely spur the economy, but it will not stop the decline. We're in a long-wave contraction. The sooner the Republicans accept that fact, the better prepared they will be to position the United States to survive what is coming.

Indeed. Economic issues aside, who's helming the ship is one thing, but who's swabbing the deck and tending the engines is another.

What about America's human capital? If we fixed the education system today, the first complete products of it wouldn't graduate high school until 2030.

Who will be working, voting...barely paying taxes in the interim?

[TheWriterTX]

The Homeschoolers will be tending to the engines, if they don’t go Galt before then.