In the following video, Part 2 of 4 of an interview of former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, posted on November 5, 2010,
Roberts states that there are two things that must happen if we're going to revive the U.S.:
Bring off-shored jobs back to the U.S.
Cut the domestic budget, which requires stopping the wars.
He says the only way to get a Congress that will do this is to stop political contributions, but that the powers that be will not allow that.
In Part 3 of 4, he says that it may be that the people who pull the strings will walk away from the system when it is clear that the system is going
down - he makes a comparison to the fall of the Soviet Union.