I think the rate of change of the decline will likely accelerate (the second derivative). We have done nothing but waste valuable time for, I don't know, somew

I think the rate of change of the decline will likely accelerate (the second derivative). We have done nothing but waste valuable time for, I don't know, somewhere between 25 and 50 years. And 100% of it is in the hands of our "leaders" in government. They are so incredibly incompetent and partisan its sad. I don't want to blame any one party in particular because this mismanagement goes back decades. Oddly enough, as much of an asshole as he was, Trump was, in fact, doing the right things. And now things are derailing again. Two simple examples: Spend billions on infrastructure. This is 100% bullshit. We have plenty of roads. Good ones. We have everything we need. What we don't have is a legislative, regulatory, tax and educational framework that pushes innovation, entrepreneurship and business to the level we need to survive and grow. Anyone who thinks this can be solved by building more roads and bridges has to answer very simple questions: 1- How long will that take? 2- If this is a precondition for success, what will you do to encourage companies --in massive numbers-- to come to the US? 3- How long will that take? My prediction, if we don't get off the bullshit train, the "infrastructure" bullshit bill will consume twenty years (that might be a low estimate) and nobody is going to have any interest in moving or starting businesses here at scale because during that time the action will most definitely be in China. It already is. Second example: The Border. Yeah. Controversial subject. Last month they detained somewhere in the order of 150K people at the border, of whom 25% are from countries other than Latin America. The run rate, at the moment, is in the order of about TWO MILLION people coming in this year, if it doesn't get worse. Answer this very simple question: What industry is creating TWO MILLION new jobs for these people to land without affecting current employment? If policies don't change we will add somewhere around 8 to 10 MILLION people in four years. More if this administration manages to gain another four years. 20 MILLION? We are losing jobs to China and other locales by the millions. Where are these people going to work? Who is going to employ them? And, at $15 per hour, what kind of job will support them when our economic outlook doesn't look so great? Border states are clamoring for the completion of the border wall and control of the border. What is currently happening is abominable. Kids piled into cages. They have 4,000 people in a venue that is only allowed to have 250. This is demented. We have gone insane. And our leadership is failing us at a massive scale.