No! Because The Supreme Court says Wall Street Billionaires can now own or destroy politicians - things aren't likely to change
57%
Yes! America will realize that we need to bring our jobs home and go back to tariffs & the middle class will return.
43%
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Needs MAYBE.
It depends on how many "Reagan Democrats" come to their senses and realize they've been robbed.
It depends on the Tea Party members who don't understand that the original Tea Party happened because taxes on corporations were too low, hurting the colonial businesses and people.
It depends on whether the rest of middle class Republicans evict their amoral 'leaders' sooner rather than later.
It depends on how many Blue Dog Democrats can either throw down the corporate shackles and work for the people who elected them, or those Blue Dogs must be replaced with Liberal Democrats, Yellow Dogs like me.
MAYBE recovery will happen more quickly when we can find our voice[s], and can get our messages out in the mainstream media. Fox News should be prohibited from calling itself news, as happened in Canada last week.
I voted NO, but not because of the "supreme" court but because we hit peak oil in 2008 and now even Iraq's oil is in decline, Saudi Arabia Gohawar oil field is going from water flooding to CO2 to push up what's left of it's oil.
With oil prices climbing again, consumption will falter and joblessness will increase again leading to a deeper recession.
There will be no recovery, every time the economy attempts to grow, it will hit up against the ceiling called resource limits.There is no such thing as "sustainable growth"! We cannot and will not continue to grow on a finite planet.We will have to become more sustainable, grow more of our own food, make our clothing, shoes etc HERE and by small wind powered, water powered or hand tools and machines using what's left of our resources. Farming must again become organic and people poop and urine will need to be used to replenish the soil, crops will be rotated with animal grazing and more people will be employed in agriculture.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to feed 307 million + Americans so there will be a forced decline of our population by disease, hunger, "civil" wars, resource wars, and starvation.
Our population grew by literally "eating" oil, for every one calorie of food we eat, it takes 10 calories of oil to produce it.There is NO combination of renewables, which depend upon OIL for their existence, to replace oil.
Before the fossil resources fueled the industrial revolution, there were 1 billion humans on this planet, after oil the population will be the same or because of the enormous damage we have done to our environment, even fewer.
I voted no because I have no faith in the political savy of the American people. Twenty something percent think Sarah Palin would make a good President! The number should be closer to three - people, not percent! We have such notables as Jeff Sessions, Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, President Bush, The Tea Party and embarrassingly Scott Brown (I'm from MA) compliments of the uninformed or just plain selfish electorate. Run an ad, and people believe it. Spread a rumor or repeat a falsehood enough and people believe it. It doesn't take that many to be swayed to change an election. Think Swift Boat ads, death panels and WMD. A woman from Arkansas on C-Span this AM stated we don't need Unions. WHY? Her husband had a job and they promised if they kept unions out, the company would be pay them very well and give them good benefits (she was never specific). What a convincing argument.
I voted No because none of this had to happen. It seems that all this going on today was tailored if you will or designed to happen..
It seems that our leaders today do not follow any laws that were laid down to follow in this country. " What is a Country without laws?
The only one's that follow these laws, "Are the hard working good people.
I voted no because the description of the yes answer is so rediculous. The ONLY thing that will reset this nation back to where the people own their government, the pretext of the Constitutional Convention itself, is another revolution.
The time has clearly come.