[Hoot Gibson]

I won't address the religious angle of the coming economic calamity because I see no evidence that our troubles are much different than what Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal have faced or will face soon, nor is it much different than what Germany faced after WW I or that a number of Latin American countries have faced over the years.

What sets our economic problems apart is the size of our economy and the fact that it is our country that is being affected. The cause of our current predicament is the same as it was in most of the examples that I cited - spineless, power hungry politicians.

There are not enough honest, courageous politicians in Congress (and certainly not enough in the Oval Office) to stop our economy from taking a second dip into recession and maybe sinking into a real depression. There is nothing admirable about compromising when one side advocates taking more of the kind of dangerous actions that got us into this mess.

It is ironic that so much good advice about how to handle our jobless rate and exploding national debt is coming from the so-called "banana republics," which have lived threw the same dismal future that awaits us if our elected leaders do not grow a backbone soon and do what is right instead of waiting for the system to crash and point out scapegoats.

The graph below shows the impact that Obamacare has already had on jobs in this country, but Obamacare is just the tip of the iceberg of the economic problems that our own government is creating for us.

[Image: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports...h=718&as=1]