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Will this election bring change? Yes. How? Find out what your Congressional representative or senator believes. Hell, find out what your local sheriff or friendly councilman-woman believes. Decide which presidential candidate is most likely to make change happen. The 2008 election is pivotal. We've been asleep at the wheel for the last twenty-five years and the car has crashed. We need change, but if it is to come, it falls on we voters to make it happen.

The US economy is in the tank as a result of favorable legislation and policies enacted and supported by current and previous administrations to special interests. The fight in Afghanistan and the Iraq debacle have revived the excesses of the military-industrial complex. Healthcare is a cruel joke; we hamstring our doctors, overcharge for treatment, and subsidize pharmaceutical companies, medical conglomerates, and insurance companies whose only objective is to bolster quarterly profits. We borrow billions a month from the Chinese and Saudis to buy oil at speculative prices. Somebody's making a fortune and it ain't us. Ninety-five percent of Americans (those making under $250,000 a year) are being robbed of every precious penny to increase corporate profits and fund foreign wars.

Ronald Reagan introduced "trickle-down" economics to encourage the rich (private and corporate) to reinvest in America by granting tax breaks and favorable subsidies that were intended to generate more jobs. Instead, that money went straight offshore in a venal search for higher returns on investments; and here we are. What has trickled down to the average American is loss of job security and healthcare, fewer jobs and lower wages, higher food and gas prices, credit card debt counseling, and the Adjustable Rate Mortgage.

Baby Boomers were raised in and became accustomed to a benign economy that insured home-ownership, GI benefits, Social Security, Medicare, good jobs for all, and unprecedented prosperity. We slept through the ensuing decades and didn't notice that major US corporations' profits were static while top executive and CEO salaries skyrocketed; anathema to investors. The corps needed more of our money and they had a plan. In 1980 there were less than 2,000 lobbyists in Washington; today there are over 37,000.

Lobbyists contributed millions to the campaigns of local and national incumbents and candidates who favored a "change" in doing business: e.g., no regulation, unrestricted profiteering,

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