It would take a certain longterm leadership plan (Gasp!...Industrial policy, rethinking hyper-financialism as a legitimate product, introducing protectionism, BOLD preservation of the environment, reducing empire.... etc), congressional will, pragmatism and understanding the reality of the world's condition in 30 years by the populace............. All of which are mostly fluff and denial at the moment.

And my cat's health surely improved after I got her de-wormed that time.

Imagine that. Removing parasites makes an organism healthier.

and a few other countries as well. But for the US, it would be a different ball game. We are a huge country with many varied cultures and religions. We don't have what it takes to tackle that kind of task in less than generations. Now, firing and jailing the bankers... we could have done that. But since we didn't, it happened all over again; like clockwork it was meant to regenerate itself... and will happen again if we don't get our ass on a stick and teach them a lesson.

who said the Bailout was 'necessary'

we must use this election mandate of Obama to grow a backbone and start some serious prosecutions of the banking sector or risk the time bomb derivatives still hidden deep within the financial sector threatening as Libor did and others soon will to take us back to that moment in Sept. 2008 where we are on the brink of having no dollars in our ATM machines.

Will someone , anyone of leadership in the US propose doing what Iceland did to recover our economy?

Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, anyone? Takers?