Comments about ‘Despite current gloom, America's future is not dark’

Despite the platitudes of these two guys, the future of the United States is pretty dark. Alone among advanced industrial countries, the United States does not recognize health care as a right, like police protection or basic education is a right. This is shredding our cohesion and will lead to the early deaths of many so-called baby boomers (we will get vouchers which won't get it done). These remarks also demonstrate that we have two business parties in the U.S. No one speaks for labor (no not the Democrats either).

I don't believe this article.

Your claim that health care is a right, no matter how often or loudly shouted, does not make it so. Your liberalness soars while your credibility falls further with claims of free education and police protection being laid out in the Bill of Rights or amendments since. No police were estasblished due to the Constitution's signing, nor did public schools become anywhere near common for another 100 years. Due process before the law, and protection of speech, association, worship, to bear arms and to seek every moral opportunity including property acquisition and protection thereof.

Face it, liberals and conservatives want totally separate things.

Liberals want a reliable, predictable future; a government that ensures no one has any advantage over anyone else; peace without any cost (aka: acquiescence); and the expansion of human rights beyond those framed by the founders.

Conservatives want an open future; a government that protects the nation's interests, promotes the prosperity and excellence of its citizens; peace at any cost (aka: right makes might); and recognition that health, education, prosperity and freedom are not rights, but privileges that we lose when we act like spoiled children.

Mutually exclusive. A great nation teeters as ignorance and evil plot.

Liberal or conservative America has probably seen its best days, individual results may vary. But we probably peeked out in the early 1960's in our military, economic and political power with maybe an uptick in the 1980's. We may have more technology, toys etc. in some ways but for most the standard of living is much worse, people are working harder than ever and spinning their economic wheels. Again individual results may be varied...

The very political divisiveness of our nation has made it so that we can't progress on any front... America use to be the place where public works built the highways and sent man to the moon. It educated the masses into the most productive and prosperous nation on earth.

Now, any public investment is seen as "evil stimulus" and education is often managed with a "starve the beast" orientation.

When our congress refuses to cut subsidies for hyper-profitable oil, but it is ready and willing to cut unemployment benefits on the masses or benefits for our veterans (who fought to make this country great), you know those entrusted with spending our tax dollars don't have America's best interests at heart.

The number one priority of our nation today should be job creation. Working people get off unemployment aid AND pay taxes. We need a public-private partnership to put Americans back to work. And yet, Congress has switched the agenda to deficits and spending cuts, which will not only increase unemployment (think government employees and private-sector gov't contractors now reduced) but reduce the number of people who can pay taxes.

We need leadership in solving America's challenges.

Its not so much the individual overspending, which is absurd, its the federal government spending that will do us in. Our grandchildren are begging our leaders to stop the insane spending.