Let me mention  just a few of those other issues that have crowded  our national agenda for years, and where we still see no solution in sight: an aging infrastructure, healthcare,  wars that puzzle our citizenry drain our capital, and our treasured human resources; after decades  as the world's greatest creditor, the United States has now become the world's greatest debtor nation; our ever-growing  insatiable appetite for foreign oil, and perhaps, the most troubling of all these seemingly  impossible-to-solve problems - 