A nation is essentially a huge corporation…typically the financial and business implications of poor management won’t be felt until the following fiscal year and the ramifications of the actions that took place during that time will be felt long after a new management team comes into play. The new management team will be forced to operate in crisis management mode until they manage to stabilize the business, after which time they can begin to implement new strategies geared towards increasing business and boosting sales. The impact of those strategies won’t be realized until the fiscal year following the year in which they were implemented. Point being…we have a long way to go…if it takes two years to clean up a large corporation (conservatively), than it stands to reason that it will take far longer for an entire country to determine if the strategies being initiated today will have the desired impact on future generations.