well, your first error was to have children, now you are hostage to the future
accept therefor that you will be compromising all decisions 'for the children'
there are many European countries in which the 'quality' of life is better than the US,
but this cannot be viewed in a vacuum; do you have the skills to maintain your family there ?
(I would LOVE to return to Tuscany, but have no means of making a living there)
if you want a leader with logic -> look elsewhere than politics, it is the process itself that is corrupting
only pragmatism can survive modern politics (i.e. they are all whores for the vote)
I think you are naive, read "The History of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russel (whose inane observations are unfortunately included)
the US has economic (and military) supremacy for a reason, it too shall pass - but not so quickly I suspect
momentum cannot be dispelled even by 8 yrs of anyone - and Bush is not totally wrong even if for the 'wrong' reasons
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