Briansd1, isn’t it bizarre that S&P ranks the European train wrecks higher than America? Doesn’t that seem strange to you? And what happens when we, The American Tea Party, bucks all the big government entitlement spending and burdensome taxation? S&P downgrades the country…. what better way to bring us “in-line.” When we don’t raise taxes… they force it on us. They know that more taxes and more spending will destroy this country… destroy a free and sovereign United States. Wake up! There’s a lot of people out there that would like to see this country go down. Oh, the political dysfunction you’re talking about? Our Founders, very wisely, structured our government to make it difficult to get “things” done. And most of the “things” that we’re trying to get done are things that the government shouldn’t even be involved in! The government that governs best, governs least. Tea Party all the way…