'Solve Every Problem' - to be sung to the tune of Climb Every Mountain

Year ago on a flight from Philadelphia to Houston I found myself surrounded by a group of engineers representing several companies and headed for the Johnson Space Center in order to bid on a government project. The guy sitting next to me asked what I did for a living and when he discovered my occupation, he announced to his friends that he had a 'preacher' to talk with. He then pitched his theory obviously more for his friend's amusement than mine that religion is becoming obsolete 'now that science and technology has within its grasp the ability to solve any problem known to mankind'. As I recall this was in January of 1964 and it seems like a hundred years ago.
The other day at Rotary, Jerry Griffin the former director of the Johnson Space Center talked about future plans for us to return to the moon and then on to Mars. He said, however, that with the retirement of the space shuttle which will happen later this year, for several years Americans will have to hop rides on the Russian Soyuze space craft in order to go to the space station as we won't have one a new model for 4 or 5 years. Griffin indicated he wasn't too thrilled with that solution.
Now we're struggling with problems that seemingly have no set solutions, at least that will easily placate all or most sides. Republicans are pouncing on the bonuses which the AIG executives got of the bail out money which was given to rescue that mammoth company because, we were told the whole economy would crash without it. Why didn't the government officials who issued those funds set up regulations limiting how it should be spent? One senator suggests suicide on the part of the executives as a way to satisfy the public. And the questions go deeper and are more complex - can we buy our way out of the current mess and how long will countries like China loan us the needed funds? Does anyone in the government actually understand all of these problems?
The Obama administration is two months old and already is feeling this heat as though these problems only appeared on his watch. But it's his Treasury Secretary who approved these massive fund transfers. And of course it's the Republican's job to lay the blame at the door of the White House.
We often heard commentators point out that with the election of this president more children can dream of wanting to become president some day. From the looks of things now it's good to remember that they also can choose not to.