But will we? Sometimes we take the wrong lesson. Or corporate entities overrule the populace. Seldom are decisions made in Washington for the good of the people and/or the country. Some of the good things they do, they do half-assed, negating any real benefit. They stop short and so cut off the chance for beneficial effects.

What the Republicans (and the Dems to some extent) have been doing is cutting out areas where large numbers of people are employed. So, when we need to grow employment and may need to infuse the workplace with jobs, instead, the government is managing to cancel thing after thing that will employ people. So our unemployment grows, people have less to spend, businesses shrink, more people get laid off, further shrinking the public buying power, further shrinking businesses and manufacturing, causing more layoffs and round and round we go, where we stop, nobody knows and God help us because the government sure as hell won't. However, they're sitting in Washington with their huge salaries and health insurance, life insurance, retirement benefits, etc., etc., all out of the public coffers while the economy rots from the inside. Oh, and executives and pharmaceutical companies, wall street gurus and a few others hoard the bread they've stolen out of the mouths of the populace.