I am a 71 year old engineer still working because I think that engineering is fun, even though it is no longer profitable. I have always been interested in economics since Texas A&M required this course for engineers, along with business law and accounting in the 1950’s. The Economics instructor taught us preposterous lessons to the effect that no one had to work as long as we just manipulated the economy. The business law and accounting courses also benefited me greatly in by career. I also cashed in my stock market investments in the spring of 2008 and avoided the loss of assets that most folks endured when they listened to their professional financial advisors. I held onto my real estate investments.

I have never participated in journalism, except for an occasional letter to the editor. I am concerned that the political leaders of both major (maybe all) political parties are leading this country into becoming a third world economy, if action is not taken rapidly. Journalists must learn about economic principals and then become the saviors of this nation by publicizing, educating and/or preaching sound economic principals to the general public. Who else has the capability to disseminate this information to the general public? Our political leaders are talking as if they never studied or read anything about economics. It is not that complicated. It is only interlocked with understandable causes and affects of various economic actions.

To restore the USA to economic health and prosperity, huge changes are needed in the very political and economic structural systems that created these problems.