Reply #3: Your confidence in your own country should be shaken, I'm afraid

[Selatius]

If we have several more presidencies like this, it would only mean the people inheriting a shattered nation. Economic woes would be the order of the day from budget busting deficits to the awesome size of the national debt and the decades old trade deficit that nobody in power has adequately addressed in the last 30 years.

Of course, we all know Bush is driven either by blind, willful ignorance or incompetence. That is not the question. The question I see looming large is what price we will pay for having somebody like that man at the helm of our nation. It is the pricetag that worries me, and it will be measured not just in dollars reckoned but also lives lost.

Unless you want to grow up in a nation that isn't any better off than Russia is today, you should be shaken to the core. There has got to be a new course found soon, or the damage could prove irreparable.