A nation with a defeatist attitude.

Seems we Americans don't fully know we're in big trouble. As a nation. We're bogged down in record deficits. Many of us are out of work. We can't make ends meet. We're losing our homes. Nearly 50 million of us have no health insurance. We have a congress that looks like a club of idiots. With no idea about how to solve our problems. And we just sit on our hands and apparently tolerate this mess. As if it's hopeless. Of course, it ain't. We could fix it. If only we became willing to pull together. To make sacrifices. To work for the common good. Maybe it'll take a big dose of socialism. And tax increases. And a new kind of patriotism. A national herculean effort even bigger than the one that won World War II. We have the potential to get it done. But we're stuck on our fat asses. Fighting each other. Obstructing. Really makes me sad to be an American. A country with a defeatist attitude. Full of loonies. Populating the entire political spectrum. --Jim Broede