The government and the Tea Party and the majority of media wonks and all are still counting beans. We only got so many beans.
No one seems concerned that no one knows where or how the beans counted are brough forth and granted usefull title to functionality. No one knows who decides or how they decide. And no one knows where all bean go to when the shit hits the fan and all of a sudden all your stuff is worthless and all your savings disappear and there are no beans to be found anywhere.
Cut spending, raise spending, do this , do that, tax this, tax that, take from the poor give to the rich, take from the rich give the middle class blah blah blah blah. Its like trying to build a house with a group of highly highly educated policy wonks and all they can accomplish is getting a bunch of bricks and wood and wires and pipes and paint and they all sit around arguing about how to build a house and they attempt to go at it with great vigor and none can agree on how to put it together, while off to the side sits an architect with a toolbox saying here here, look, we have the plan, knowledge, and the tools, right here a box of tools, and I know how to manage the job, but the PHD wonks just kill the architect and go on about some mysterious free spirit of building and the inevitable nature of buildings to become built by sheer willpower and force of the indisputable rationality of the individuals fighting one against one and all against all to achieve the best results.
The tool in our global economy is money and the blindness is that it is controlled by banks and private institutions and allowed to be traded. We and our representatives are fighting tooth and nail to build a use full functioning economy and the main tool, money is out of our control and the directions for how to set up a different way are ignored and denied to even exist.