Originally Posted by Matt 26z

The 1990s was the climax of American society. There is nothing any version of the US government can do to get us back there in a reasonable period of time that voters would agree with.

The sooner Americans accept that the current economy is pretty much the new normal economy, the sooner we can adjust. That won't happen though. People will naturally continue to demand a return to 90's living and refuse to pay the piper for decades of borrowed wealth.

This ultimately comes down to the baby boomer generation - the so-called greatest generation - having actually been the most financially destructive generation in the history of the US.