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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it's time for a smart and capable new U.S. president to figure out how to bring back the manufacturing jobs without upsetting the world economy.

The U.S. has always had smart and capable citizens. Folks who figured out how to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems. Over time, the government has been taken over by idiots who do more to harm the nation than any enemy nation could do to us. A prime example is not protecting American jobs.
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When my grandfather returned from the Second World War, all the people who never would have had a change at college took the GI Bill and became engineers who helped to re-start the economy.

When my father returned from VietNam badly wounded, he took the GI Bill and a patchwork of student loans and became a primary care physician.

When my siblings and I went to college, my parents encouraged us to "follow our dreams."  So my brother who would have been a fantastic engineer, makes bongs and torques at mortorcycles in my parents garage and never went to college.  My sister who would have been a great physician like either of my parents got hooked on drugs in high school and took a three week course at a nursing home on how to be a bedside assistant.  She has been fired from many nursing homes for stealing patient's drugs and now just lives with my parents so they can keep her alive.  I got a early childhood certificate from a community college and work at a daycare.

I heard one of my aunts same to my mother:  from blue collar to bums in two generations.

I think this is what happened to the US.  We had many good people and then they stopped caring about studying hard, working hard, and just took the easy path to a mediocre life.    Politicians are the same. We used to have geniuses running the country, now they are so/so people who have hung around too long the senior senators or congressional leaders from both parties.  No one with brains wants to get into politics or run the country like the New Dealers who came to DC in the 1930s.   All the smart people are following the money to corporate America.  What would it be like if a few of those capable CEOs took over the country for a year or two?  Can't we have a political president but someone smart to run the country? Something like the Brits who have the figurehead queen but a PM who generally is pretty smart.[/quote]

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