One type of problem facing Americans is that they don't really know what should be done, politically, to get help.
They generally think less government will sort of solve their problems, because their politicians have trained them to respond like that, in a sort of Pavlovian way, and because traditionally Americans have been unnaturally suspicious of government, and ignorant of history.
The politicians who in recent decades taught less is best were being paid by big lobbies which want less government anyway because more government has tended to limit their freedom of action in taking advantage of average Americans who have been trained to consume.
So, how many kinds of reforms do we need?
It's hard to shake a stick at all the ways reforms are needed.
Financial reform, health care reform, are really the tips of an enormous iceberg needing to be broken up by reforms before it crushes the stultifera navis.
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