>and why is it that we cant get this shit turned around still?

A combination of government intervention in the market and economist intervention in the government. The government has now made economics a government field, in the way that the best jobs (those that are highly distinguished and paid) are in the government. Politicians that have a hand in getting economists into those jobs don't want to be told that they can't print more money, or even worse, will have to trade a little hurt now for health later down the road. So they will pick those that they agree with--pro-government, Keynesian types that favor government intervention. They do this out of their own needs for votes and for helping the people. No one need be evil or mean, just biased like all people are. But when these pro-government, Keynesian types keep getting those influential positions and keep directing monetary policy--guess what the future of the economic field is? More people just like them. I'm not saying they are wrong, but that they aren't always right and I believe that right now, they aren't right. So we will continue down this road, increasingly messing up our economy and polluting the economic field away from the pursuit of positive results and turn it into a field of "if it doesn't fit our model, then the market is the one that's wrong."