BTDT, if you wrote that you have an excellent understanding of the real problems that need to be dealt with. A+

Despite the doom that many see, I see hope for a realistic solution based on cold, hard economic fact and rejection of hope, emotion and wishing as a basis for a cure.
Understanding people will continue to flee for the exits until the correct policy is implemented. Once you are clear of a burning building, one can watch the carnage at leisure.