by Not Here

Created on: January 29, 2009

Literally yes, Obama's election does signal a new day for America evidenced by the fact that he is not a white male. Unfortunately for all of us, that may be the only new change coming to the White House. The current state of our economy is evidence that big government and big foreign policy are not sustainable. George W. Bush ran the economy into the ground with the biggest expansion in government ever, all under the guise of being a "fiscal conservative". Now Obama plans to fix it by spending even more money that we do not possess. I recently saw something that estimated every Americans personal share of our governments liabilities at a whopping 184.000 dollars. Obama plans to fix this by increasing the amount we spend in order to make government work. He wants to sustain what we have, instead of cutting programs that and funding that are not neccesary.

The Federal government needs to be downsized like any corporation that has long since stopped turning a profit. Do we really need a Department of Education at both state and national levels? I say no we do not, let individual states and communties decide how best to educate their children. Rather than have beaurocrats make a career out of blowing money, we should cut it immediately. Yes people will lose jobs, but our country will be better for it. Streamlining these types of agencies and putting them in local control allows for them to be much more effective in implementing solutions to problems.

Obama, for all his charasmatic oratorial skills, fails to see all the real problems with our society especially from an economic point of view. "Change" as his campaign promised would see the Federal Reserve drasticaly altered if not disbanded altogether, with an economic plan based utilizing a currency that is backed up by something tangible. Richard Nixon took our country off the gold standard four decades ago and the value of our money has dropped as we have seen the effects of the policy. Printing money "out of thin air" will never produce a stable long term economy. Neither will elongated foreign endevours to police the world.

Obama will get us out of Iraq, sometime in the near future just like he promised in his campaign. Then again he will also build up the military's presence in Afghanistan fermenting even more international hatred for our country and likely leading to more blowback in the form of terrorist attacks against America and its allies. Real "change" would involve pulling our troops back from the 700

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