Your right Quick13, but dont forget the incompetent morons that we call Congress, they are so busy with thier party finger pointing that they have completely forgotten that they are supposed to be working for US!!! The past few years they could not work to balence a budget but they had plenty of time to worry about steriod use in major league baseball (like the average American really cares). Part of our problem also lies in the American people to belive everything a politician says while they are running for a position, I wonder how many went to the US Congress site and looked at the voting record of our current president, it did not take long, seems he was not present or did not vote on a lot of business. It was funny how he (like many others) had all the answers during the campain on how he would help the middle class (someone has to pay the bills) but he did not introduce a single piece of legislation that I could find to attempt to fix anything while he was in Congress. I disappointed as I sound I do recognize that we still live in the greatest country in the world and I am very grateful to all of the men and women that have defended our right, even to the death, to have differing opinions!