Do you really think anyone can fix the current econ with out drasticly changing the things?
Take this last election in CA as an example, we are broke, I mean 11 bill in the red this year broke... so what do the voters do? only pass every single bond measure that will cost this state almost 100% in intrest...
When the population does not care about how deep the goverment is in the hole, only that they keep getting "hand outs" things will never change.
No TAB I do not. Because what the economy needs most is for politicians to quit "fixing it" and making it "fairer", and that just WILL NOT happen. If you tied a politicians hands to keep his fingers out of things that don't need him , he (or she) would fu%#ing explode.
Hmmm, Remember that old movie "Scanners" ? Picture Chuck Schumer, his face starts turning red, then a little trickle of blood from his nose, BANG his head goes off like a grenade.

I found this quote on Neal Boortz's web site, I listen to him just about every day while I am driving during the day. If you haven't heard of The Fair Tax, this is the guy who wrote the book with Rep. John Linder (who wrote and proposed the bill in Congress). Every time I read this, I can't help but shudder when I see how true this could be.
From Alexander Tyler. No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old. Tyler was writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
2012, End of the world as we know it,Mayan calendar ends in 2012, calculations based on the Great Pyramid also indicate a date of 2012 (December and May respectively) every one we are having trouble with , or MIGHT have trouble with, or ISRAEL might have trouble with has nukes, we have LOTS of nukes, Israel has nukes. After the deluge God promised Noah that he would never destroy the world with water again, as sort of an after thought he says Next time it will be fire. Guess he did not want to get repetitive and bore us, or seem like a "one trick pony, "yeah, yeah, We've seen the flood thing already, don't you have any NEW material. We ARE looking for CHANGE you know.
Of course God has OTHER options besides just"Hardening the hearts of Rulers", He could take a direct hand and wallop us with an asteroid, it certain straightened out that dinosaur infestation , probably not a bad thing, can you imagine driving along the hiway, come around a corner and hit Brontosaurus turd in the left lane ?