^...an economic policy addicted to constant unsustainable growth based on irresponsible consumption of natural resources, a negative balance of payments, encouragement of obscene consumer and corporate debt and financial speculation, non-industrial service industries that produce nothing of any real value, and immigrant and outsourced labor.^

And, disregarding the hyperbole and outright BS, what is your alternative? Keep in mind I am already closely watching the results of "enlightened" economic ideas in other nations.

This country, for most of a century, has been the powerhouse that has carried the rest of the planet upward in living standards with it. A subsistence economy may be long-lasting and environmentally sound, but oddly, given a choice, very few people in the world seem to select it over any possible alternative, even hard factory labor.

Go look at that chart again. Tell me how much of that fiscal hole is "corporate debt and financial speculation."