The U.S. These Days: NO CAN DO

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/opinion/09herbert.html?_r=1&hp

This is where we have come -- under "leadership" of dunces and dolts.  What does it say about us as a people that we elect and allow the worst possible candidates to lead us--and, OMG!, just look where they have led us!  The corporations allowed to rule and flourish by Ronald Reagan and all the Republicans who followed him in office, are now our lord and master.  Read the book When Corporations Rule the World.  We are in that place today.