To many of us, Reaganomics was a stupid idea when it started out. I'm only amazed that it took this long to collapse.
Paul Burke is right, though. The candidates only mouth the advise from their handlers. Even Obama has backed off his original plans, and thinks it would be bad to raise taxes in a recession.
The fact that the thieves stole all the money shouldn't surprise anybody--those were the handlers of the candidates that went before.
It would take an honest man with a lot of balls to fix it, and both Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were forced out of the race early on. I watched Ralph Nader taking about this problem on a news program, and I think he has the right answers, and would make an effort to return the people's government back to the rightful owners. But what is his chance of getting elected.
Sadly, I'm sure we'll end up with one of the fools.