Old lady pwning n00bz.
As an American abroad, it has been hard for me to get a grasp on what the recent election meant for the U.S. However, I have been doing my metaphorical homework in order to get a better idea. What I have basically surmised is that we are going to be stuck for the next two years in a kind of political deadlock, and might undo some of the progress that was made over the last two years. I find this particularly unsettling, especially as China and India continue to see double digit GDP growth while the U.S. is mired in an insufficiently stimulated economy. Spending money, in my opinion, on education (an area in which we are falling behind rapidly on a global level), our infrastructure (which is shit-tastic to say the very least) and on projects for sustainability (renewable energies, improved public transit, greener cities, etc.) would all be good ways to boost job growth as well as our ability to continue to play the part of world leader for the next 50 years or so. The national consensus seems to be that the government needs to tighten its belt, and that we can't afford to go any further into debt, but, as basic keynesian economic theory suggests, in order for us to leave this recession more quickly government spending needs to rise. 