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Corey Deitz
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I feel the America I grew up in is slipping away and struggling like
a drowning victim being pulled under by a stormy sea of mislaid ideas.
Upon the election of Barack Obama, the Democrats settled into a
comfortable place where they could dominate our nation’s policies and
budgets for the next four to eight years. Two terms of George W. Bush
was quite enough for the populace and the election of 2008 – if not a
referendum on Bush, McCain, and the GOP (Good Old Palefaces) - then
certainly a rejection of the Republican Party which had become fiscally
bloated, unprincipled, and pandering.
I don’t disagree.
The Republicans deserved to lose in 2008 and although I didn’t
really want Obama’s Democratic type of “change” I do agree we have
taken a great step in the evolution of our country by electing the first
American black president. That said, I don’t buy into a lot of his ideas and
I believe it is my duty to speak out against the coming social lab
experiments he and his Party have been itching to mix up in their cultural
beakers. “Change” is just a word and without the right action attached to
it, it is as meaningless as an old campaign sticker – or as dangerous as a
concealed enemy.
Some people wanted change because it was an easy solution to all
the ills plaguing them – even if they didn’t exactly knows what the change
would mean. They just sought someone different, anything different; as
long as it wasn’t Bush or the Republicans.
Others knew exactly what “change” they had in mind and could
hardly wait for the opportunity to impose it. All they needed was the
teacher to leave the room. The election of 2008 removed any balance of
government we might have had. It paved the way for the Democrats to
shove every social engineering program they could conjure up from the
Congressional cauldron into their first spell: the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009. You know: the 1100 page economic stimulus
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