With our seemingly ever mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment stubbornly above 9 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment perhaps 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, enviornmental challenges, and ever-mounting climate chaos ,  we are in a very serious situation.  Our serious challenges are, as the previous sentence suggests, a networked system-of-systems that interact and reinforce each other.

While tremendous political (and other obstacles) exist that inhibit sanity fostering efforts  to stop digging the holes deeper and climb our way out, we must resist stove-piped solution paths and fight for W6 solutions that have wins across multiple arenas.