Not Broke. Mismanaged.
America is not broke. It is mismanaged. The United States has extraordinary resources, talent, institutions, and productive capacity. Responsible America's position is that most of the country's structural problems are not a resource shortage — they are a governance and accountability failure: money and power being misused, not absent. This is the platform's organizing thesis; see About for the full statement and Methodology for how every claim under it is checked.