Fat Chance that our leaders will lead.

The GOP has tied the rich as the "job creators" in this country. Therefore, do anything against them and poof there goes the chance of any new jobs.

The fact is that the rich are getting richer. We need a balanced approach in this country. We need to cut bloated government (how about shutting down these two wars and closing military bases to begin with), close tax loopholes, bring back Clinton tax rates for those earning over $500K per year, and look at tweaking our entitlemen­t reforms to account for changes in our society (like a modest increase in the social security age for people under 50.) Finally, we need to find ways to bring back innovation and advance technology to our country and train workers to take over the new manufactur­ing (providing training grants to cutting edge technology for worker retraining­.)

I personally would like to see the income tax replaced by the consumptio­n tax but we would probably get snow in Central Park in June before that happens.

Some of this is good old fashion common sense. But that seems to be in short order lately.