A man with solutions

Another midterm election has come and gone. The “deck chairs” of our two entrenched parties were once again rearranged. Will this change any critical issues?

Still unchanged are: an economy suffering from decades of governmental and corporate abuse, irresponsible fiscal and monetary management, a “greed is good” form of crony capitalism, disappearing jobs, weakening education, influence peddling, unsustainable salaries and pensions of public workers, 40 percent of Americans now living off tax or borrowed money. The list goes on. Will this election change anything?

Yet, let's be positive! We will eventually choose from several solutions. Many worked before. One has never really been tried.

1. Establish a national strategy where everyone cooperates to achieve fiscal responsibility and a sustainable economy excellent strategy, but a long shot.

2. Continue spending and get other nations to join us current strategy

3. National default to “vaporize” our irresponsibility add to strategy two when needed.

4. Support a global war to “pump” the economy and “blow up” the competition add to strategies two and three to “protect national security,” messy, will cost more than $2 trillion, but, hey, it worked before.

5. National social and economic decline sort of a non-strategy, very messy, but works long term, very long term.

I tried to vote for candidates who even mentioned strategy No. 1, but my choices were seriously limited.

Guy Turnbull

Algonquin