Domestic Policy Being Lost in the Shuffle

The 2008 election will be one of the most important elections in recent memory that will greatly affect the direction our nation heads in for the future. Right now our nation is at a crossroads and the American people are debating which one of the eighteen candidates is fit to be the next president of the United States, the most powerful position in the world. However, with the country's attention of the political debates that create national media attention and must-watch television, the question becomes, has domestic policy been lost this past year and for the most part of what will be the 2008 election year? The primary for president will be in January/February and the general presidential election will be in November of 2008. This begs the question, how focused are people on America's domestic agenda?

If you look at the current state of affairs in the United States, immigration has been a huge problems as well as social security. Almost all of the discussion in the United States has turned to foreign policy and while foreign policy is indeed at a crucial juncture in the United States, so is domestic agenda as well.

Foreign policy in the United States faces a major crisis with the war in Iraq, the nuclear conflict with Iran, the soldiers still in Afghanistan and threats from Russia and their leader, Putin. However, domestic policy in the United States seems to have been forgotten as the gulf between rich and poor is as wide as it has ever been and it is only increasing every day. CEOs of companies are making more money in one day than the majority of their employees make in a year. The American middle class is disappearing at an alarming rate and this issue is not being discussed at all in today's society which is a major problem.