Reply #3: Schultz is absolutely right.

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The rich are sitting on their money, buying luxury goods made overseas with it. They will never use it to build the American economy. Why should they? The worse the ordinary folks do, the richer the rich feel.

Obama does not seem to have the courage to increase taxes on the wealthy and just put it to work building infrastructure and making small loans to new businesses. The banks won't make the loans or invest in America. Our government is going to have to do it directly. Do we want our government to be so involved in the private sector? No. But if the private sector doesn't believe in America enough to invest here, then we the people need to believe in ourselves, take back all that money the government is printing and put it where it will build our country.

As for all the foreign wars, we need to work much harder toward energy independence and the development of alternative energy sources. We cannot continue to spend so many of our resources on foreign wars.

What good will it do if we "win" in Afghanistan or Iraq or Somalia or wherever if we bankrupt our people and are forced to live in garbage dumps here to do it? Sounds like Detroit is at that point already.