Earlier this month, some economic luminaries in the United States Congress introduced a new bill, H.R. 2835. The bill intends to “establish a joint select committee of Congress to report findings and propose legislation to restore the Nation’s workforce to full employment…”

Great idea, fellas. After failing to ignore your way out of recession, spend your way out of recession, lie your way out of recession, and print your way out of recession, you now intend to legislate your way out of recession.

This bill exemplifies how completely clueless the leadership is, and highlights the common demeanor of the political class. By definition, people are in government because they believe that government is the solution, not the problem.

The sarcasm continues but this should be enough to make the point. In the case of this author, the left-wing crazies will quickly label him as a right-wing crazy. My feeling is that no matter where you are in the political spectrum, while you may not like his solution, you should notice that he is right. That is, the in power class is totally clueless as to how to address a real problem.

It seems that every time someone has an approach to addressing a real problem, their idea gets shot down by those who will lose something as a result of the proposed approach. The only thing that seems to work is to sweep the problem under the rug. That's a lot easier for someone serving a 2, 4 or 6 year term to do than those who need a real job in order to pay their family's expenses (and, of course, the salaries of those who are busy sweeping the problems under the rug.

Personally, I think it is time for usanos to admit that those in control only know how to sweep stuff under the rug and the rest of the population is too busy focusing on their particular position to see that it can't really fix things. That is, usanos have experienced prosperity at the expense of the planet and of other peoples but everything has a limit. It seems time to admit this and try to work together for a sustainable solution. Oh, and not by inviting the politicians to the pow-wow.