Best analysis of the situation I've read in ages. Don't know if the situation is quite as bad as Baer thinks it is, but you can't fault the man for intelligence and vision.

I really do wish the politicians would level with us about what we've gotten into. It's a big, ugly, long-term situation, and the American people would do better by knowing the facts. It's not as though Americans can't make sacrifices --we can, and we will, if the case is explained to us, and the cause if sensible. I hold the Republicans in slightly more disgust about this, since as the party in total power, the responsibility for governing is theirs.

But I don't hold any fantasies that the Dems would do better.

Thank goodness for guys like Baer who can call it like they see it.