by Rand E Oertle

Created on: August 31, 2009   Last Updated: January 19, 2010

Can there be any question that America’s political mood is undergoing a mammoth shift with the fact that the senate seat held by Ted Kennedy could be held by a Republican.  The fact that it is even a question is confirmation of the size of that shifting mood.  Barack Obama’s support is collapsing.  Health care legislation is now opposed by about sixty percent of Americans but the Obama and the Democrats are ignoring the polls and damning the political torpedoes headed their way. 

The shift is so pronounced the predictions are that 2010 election could see Republicans take control from the Democrats possibly in both houses of Congress.  All of this has happened in only one year of the Obama administration.  If the predictions are accurate it will be the largest the most significant one-year change of a new administration in the history of America. That is not just a shifting mood; it is a sea change in American politics.

America’s mammoth obligations of domestic entitlement programs have forced informed Americans to confront a new reality along with two other critical issues that are awakening a profound concern. It is no surprise, therefore, that the American political mood is shifting because America’s economic and democratic futures are at stake, and voters are not getting straight answers.

Putting this administration’s proposed financial solutions into an individual family’s prospective illustrates how risky it would be for that family to implement the federal plan on a family-sized scale.  Assume that your home is in foreclosure and you want to take action to solve your financial crisis.  If you use the Obama administration’s example, you would immediately go out and buy a new car, a whole new wardrobe and new furniture and claim that the expenditure resolves your financial shortfall. 

The political mood is shifting because the American people are beginning to understand that Obama is dismantling the American Constitution and spending at a rate higher than World War II.  Just consider the three elements mentioned he’s implementing.

Unfunded Liabilities

On February 14, 2005, Kent Smetters for the Committee on the Budget of the U. S. House of Representatives submitted for a Congressional hearing on February 17, 2005 a list of future unfunded obligations of America’s domestic entitlement programs.  At that time, just two programs, Social Security and

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