Dan Mangru

At some point, the people have to choose. Do you want to reform Social Security or do you want to be taxed to death to support an inefficient and potentially insolvent government program? It’s not really much of a decision.

When is this nightmare going to be over? It started under George W. Bush and Hank Paulson with the original bailouts. Now it has continued under the reign of Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner who have taken bailouts to a new level, spending trillions of taxpayer dollars. Yet the end is nowhere in sight.

National identity. It’s part of the very fabric that holds the United States together. We are individuals, we are capitalists, but above all else, we are Americans. We make our own laws. We decide our own future. No one can tell us what to do. But that is now under attack.

It sounds like a terrible thing to say. At first glance, a recession of any kind, especially a double-whammy recession, doesn’t seem like the best thing for America. America needs jobs, entrepreneurship, and recovery. The last thing we need is another recession. But if history serves us correctly, it could be the best thing to ever happen to the United States.