You can't just cut your troubles away: Poor educational system; low education; high income inequality; low real income growth rate; high rates of drug addition;

You can't just cut your troubles away: Poor educational system; low education; high income inequality; low real income growth rate; high rates of drug addition; low social mobility; housing shortages; poor public transit; decreased access to healthy food; private equity buying everything and jacking up the prices; etc. In fact, most solutions to troubles require spending time and/or money. Very few are resolved by "do less, and do it worse". > At some point there need to be painful austerity measures - budget cuts, increased taxes, and the like. Perhaps: america can start with increasing taxes on the rich, instead of decreasing taxes on the rich and increasing taxes on the non-rich. That should get america more money and hurt fewer people.