This ain't your grandpappy's USA, and it never can or will be again, so why not stop pining for what can never again be?
I am not sure how I feel about bailouts, although they make me uneasy, but the cap on executive salary should have been in Bush's first one, at least, good call there.
Also, re:....
Truer words were never spoken. The notion that health care should be a for profit business, yet lawsuits of any magnitude allowed and even encouraged is ludicrous. It actually costs us far more than it saves over socialized systems, and it feeds "insurance company legalized racketeering"! Our system is a lose, lose, for everyone but the insurance companies and the ambulance chasers. Damn! Wake the hell up to that fact already! Every doctor I know personally favors a a different system than there is now, and nearly every patient. Every doctor I know, and I know quite a few, would be in favor of a partially at least, socialized system.
In simpler times tax cuts had more positive effect, and there is still reason to keep taxes as low as possible, but again, times have changed. Welcome to this century! Will you please acknowledge it's 2009, not 1909 already?