Forum Post: Americas Economic Problems are Political - Not Lack of Resources

The founding fathers were not bean counters. So they must be confused when they hear the ideologues and bean counters tell us that we can no longer afford to do the good things for our citizens that are described in the Preamble of the Constitution.
What exactly are they saying? That we don’t have enough science and talent to support a health care system for our citizens? We don’t have enough engineers and skilled tradesmen to manufacture everything we need? Are we short on farming and the land needed to grow our food? Are there not enough engineers and construction workers to fix our infra structure? They talk nonsense. We have an ample supply of all of these assets. The country is filled with everything we need to satisfy the material and creative requirements of all our citizens. There is one thing that we don’t have--a thoughtful and honest Congress. One that will make sure everything that should happen on the national level does happen, regardless of party ideology or special interests. It is the absence of a competent elected leadership that is pulling us down. This poor leadership is the result of having ceded the management of our electoral process to two self serving political parties.
With a thoughtful and honest Congress we would not be in the current mess. They would have recognized that having everyone together in productive work is the only way to real financial and social stability. We should by now be in an all out program focused strictly on that. Instead the two parties have wasted over two years bickering with each other over unproven ideologies while the confidence of the nation is destroyed. With over 300 million in population our nation has talent far superior to that of the current congress. We must open up our candidate selection process to give ourselves better choices at the polls.