This NY Times published article talks about our financial woes as a nation and how they are not going away quickly.

I ask again, whatever happened to a Republican Party led by hard headed businessmen and capitalists trained in the concept of a cost-benefit analysis? Part of the answer is that our economic system was seduced by the steroids of outsourcing of plants and jobs, even at the risk of our national security. Another part of the answer is that going to war was too easy because the attitude was among the majority that it was someone else's job to fight that war.

We've written before about this phenomenon in our posting about how politicians face the same quandry as doctors.

Here's a link to Cohen's article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/opinion/21cohen.html?th&emc=th