President Obama: Change We Never Needed

Today's economists attack without respite the prodigal ways of Republican rule during the Bush Administration.

True, Republican one-party government never let a crisis go to waste, turning the attacks on 9-11 to grant military-minded minions in Congress free reign to spending on the Armed Forces and security, including the establishment of a figurehead intelligence director over the nation's intelligence agencies, plus the creation of another Big Government Behemoth Department of Homeland Security. These extra agencies, rather than living up to the namesakes, merely take up home on land, yet providing little security or coordination in the face of domestic and international threats.

Notwithstanding the outrageous deficit spending which has swept this nation into future insolvency, a third term of President Bush would not have been hurtling this nation toward fiscal insolvency. The current philosopher-academic ( and out-of-touch elitist) President is throwing worse money after bad, when we should be focusing on saving, if we can claim to have any money at all to save.

Still, rather than answering the non sequitur question posed by the wide-grinning former President "Miss me yet?" on billboards across the country, this nation needs a President dedicated to upholding the Constitution of the United States, who will not shirk at the responsibility to veto popular bills laden with pork-barrel spending.

We need an executive who seeks to revert Washington to its former status, not just change its rhetoric or make small cuts to large expenditures. President Obama was the change that this country never needed, no matter how fiscally unsustainable the Bush years may have become. Still, there must be a leader out there who is will to stand up to his (or her) party and do the right thing for this country.