Prevent the economic demise of our country?? His policies will ENSURE the economic demise of our country.
Leaving health care off the list is like talking about this year's baseball playoffs and leaving the Yankees off the list.
But the bottom line is, it is inconceivable that we will ever be able to work ourselves out of the huge deficit he is running up. We will either go bankrupt, or, more likely, devalue the dollar to something comparable to the pre-war Deutsche Mark. And his onerous tax and regulatory policies will stifle any incentive for private sector investiment that could revitalize the economy.
Still, all of this might be forgiveable if he was actually doing what he said he was going to do - use the borrowed funds to rebuild our infrastructrue and lessen our fossil fuel energy dependency. But it's business as usual - borrow and borrow and borrow, waste and waste and waste. Only 100 fold.