Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
Zig Ziglar

Solutions intro; Philosophy of the impossible; retooling our workforce; Environmental considerations; critical industries; Political change; term limits; litigation problems; recognition of problems; recognition of war with china; provide a competitive labor pool for key industries; currency revaluation; Education; over valuation of life; parental responsibility.