A Lot Can Happen In 20 Months...

Okay. Not too many of us "US Americans" are happy with the radical (meaning "having to do with the root") changes we've seen in our country in the past 20 months.

We've seen the debt skyrocket. When we consider the real cost of paying down the debt and funding all of the other entitlement obligations the United States has incurred, we realize that it is quite impossible. Literally, impossible.

We've seen cronyism at its best in the selective bailouts of banks and other businesses. Why did Lehman Brothers get help while Bear Stearns was allowed to fail? Why is GM still a going concern, while Chrysler is bankrupt and its assets are owned by a minor Italian car company? Why did congressmen and senators advocate in behalf of some GM dealerships, but not others, reversing the closings of the chosen few? Why were investors - private, legitimate investors - forced by the government to accept less than they were legally entitled to during the bankruptcy proceedings of some businesses?

We've seen stagnation in a war that the current administration said was not only necessary, but ultimately winnable. The military in Afghanistan has been given a mere fraction of the resources needed to accomplish their goals, while the president and his advisors are distracted by other matters.

We saw healthcare reform rammed through congress and down our throats inspite of the overwhelming resistance to a bill that no person in congress had read or understood, the full effects of which have yet to be felt because of the strategic timing of its effectiveness. The bill will not be fully enacted until after the president's reelection campaign in 2012.

We have seen the complete and utter mismanagement of an environmental disaster the likes of which the United States has never seen. From absolute corruption in the administration's oversight agency to apparent appathy on the part of the president, it has been an absolute goat rope.

We see the federal government suing the sovereign State of Arizona over a law enacted by the state legislature that simply - and almost completely - quotes and cites federal immigration law and requires peace officers in Arizona to also enforce those federal statutes during the routine course of responding to violations of other laws. (Contrary to what is commonly reported by liberal "journalists", this is not a license for policemen to stop a person who is not violating any other statute and ask for "their papers.")

We see congress seriously considering rewriting hundreds of years of case law regarding business and finance in a move to further fetter the freedom of economic markets that have brought the world its greatest wealth and prosperity in the history of the human race.

We can say that we're going to change things in November. We can say that we might even take away the statist control of the Congress. (NB: I did not say "Democrat control" because there are statists in the Republican party, too.)

So we take control of the Congress back for The People in November. The change won't take place until late January of 2011.  What legislation do you think is going to get passed in the intervening "lame duck" period? Look at what the statists have passed while purportedly worried about the chances of reelection! I really can't imagine what is coming down the proverbial pike.

I think we're in for quite an adventure. I'd like to see serious talk about repealing 100% of the legislation passed between 2007 and 2010! Consider each act on its own merits, and keep the ones that are good for the whole. Lose the rest!