by Robert Mckenna

Created on: August 11, 2010   Last Updated: August 12, 2010

“Gee dad, I spent all the money you gave me; not only will I be unable to pay you back soon, but I really need you to give me more money.  Why, so I can help my business hire people back, my laid off employees.  Yes, I realize this loan in no way helps the business to grow and flourish in these difficult times, and I realize not paying you now, also does nothing but delay and stalls bankruptcy, in the hope against hope that the Recession will just miraculously disappear, you know, like the gas shortage in the late 1970s.”  Who is fooling whom?  Sons and daughters throughout history have made millions of excuses, and developed fantastically creative albeit bogus promises of how they intend to pay back loans from Mom and Dad.

The government of the United States presently is acting like a spoiled child who has wonderful ideas steeped in altruism; unfortunately, economics knows no such human quality.  America is challenged, as is the rest of the world, with the most encompassing economic slowdown since the Great Depression that followed the crash of the stock market in October 1929.  This country for the first time flounders on the edge of the American Dream.  

Poor leadership on both sides of the aisle is completely attributable to America's plight.  American people need to make a stand, and speak with real power as provided in the Constitution, the power of the vote.  Government leadership is no longer capable of doing the next responsible thing, because of politics. 

Politics, has turned into a strategy of reelection at all cost; promise the people whatever they want, as long as it garners votes.  The parents who let their children do whatever they want, just to make the children happy, are not parenting, but are leaving their children without the tools to be successful adults in life.  Balance works, while too much of a good thing usually comes crashing down with disastrous results.  The analogy is evident without committed leaders, such as men and women who put their country before personal gain and power, as good parents obligate to the raising of their children, this country faces disaster on an unprecedented scale.  To be clear, citizens of the United States are not children or mentally challenged; rather, they are the lifeblood, heartbeat, and working parts of the greatest nation in the world.  America, analogous to a huge international corporation, and the politicians

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