Go read this now, then come back and discuss.
The Republican solution for these problems? More tax cuts for the super rich, less spending on the poor and middle class, and more spending on the war machine.
Americans are a few months away from electing more Republicans. Not fewer.
The Democrats are often ineffectual, and many of them -- the conservadems -- are Republicans by another name, but when it comes to the decision as to which party can best ameliorate some of those awful numbers, the Democrats are closer to the mark. They always have been.