What’s Going On?

Between a near trillion dollar stimulus bill which was over one thousand pages long, billion dollar corporate bailouts, and executives taking taxpayer funded multimillion dollar bonuses, there seems to be something fishy amiss. With all of these financial scandals going on it’s no wonder news organizations are reporting economic doom. What happened to “the new era of responsibility”, nothing seems to have changed. We are spending more, corporate thievery is afoot, and the American tax payer is footing the bill. The dollar is losing its value and fast, and inflation is very real, bread used to be fifty-nine cents. In all of this craziness it looks like Rush Limbaugh is getting his wish. What I don’t understand is how the spending of billions to corporations, petty state projects, and who knows what other nonsense that the government has planned for our money, is going to help. When will it stop? When will the era of fiscal responsibility begin, and when will the era of irresponsibility end?

It looks like what had been promised to the American people has taken a sideline to the usual bureaucratic nonsense that we had under the old administration. If indeed it is the time for change, then for crying out loud, make change, radical, swift change. This is what is needed in our government. Without this change we are doomed to repeat the last eight years and it seems that those who now hold office are not making sufficient effort to make this happen. Where is it, President Obama? America voted for change, now where is it?

Joe Cooper
Wilkes University 10'
19 March 2009