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The overriding problem is government spending, unheard of debt and trying to control the economy. You keep hearing about government spending completely out of control, much of it now going to subsidize uncontrolled illegal immigration and hundreds of billions of dollars going to proxy wars that are doing nothing to help Americans. This has caused run away inflation and high interest rates. Under President Trump there were no new wars and he ended US involvement in many places. China continues to undercut the American worker with slave labor and heavily subsidized production and Congress is not doing near enough to keep those products out of the US. Then of course there is the absurd government college loans where colleges have been allowed to increase tuition at will, with no restrictions placed on them. Add to that is the false doctrine pushed heavily by President Obama and Democrats that everyone one needed a college education, without any regard whether a college degree was even marketable or it would even be possible to pay off the loans in ones life time. Here we are back to Thomas Sowell explaining that progressives ignore that societal norms are evolutionary and most new ideas have already been tried and failed, but progressives distain history and consequential knowledge as interfering with their mantra of unrestraint , preferring to institute ideas and programs that have failed time and time again throughout history, hoping for a different outcome. But as Thomas Sowell said, there are no solutions, just tradeoffs.

Everything from price controls, to the 2008 Mortgage meltdown (selling house to people with no income, no income, no job and no assets; the wholesale purchasing of failed mortgages by banks was necessary not as investment s but to mitigate the collapse of the housing market), unlimited college loans without any regard to how they will be paid off, unrestricted illegal immigration, proves the adage, that if you really want to screw things up, hand your problems over to the experts and let government try to fix it.

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