As boring as it may be, America will never recover fully without campaign finance reform
It is my fervent belief that the biggest problem facing America today has nothing to to with the economy, nor the environment. It it not social issues, as most elected republicans and those who hope to be elected are telling us with the laws that they're passing in the states and the rhetoric they use on the campaign trail. It's not education nor the fact that the United States of America has a broken educational system. It's not even Wall Street or greedy CEOs who have stolen the futures, dreams and hopes of so many in this country. Americans have to look more deeply into the source that allows all of these tragedies to occur. While all of these things do present severe problems that we, as a nation, must overcome before we can consider ourselves on the mend from the greatest recession since the Great Depression, the truth of the matter is that we need to look past them all to get to the root. We have to stop arguing about oil subsidies versus those for ...