Change + Hope = $750bilion in Debt

First, I have to admit I stole the title from one David Wilson, a close friend and colleague.  I think it’s brilliant.

Second, I have to wonder if THIS represents the change we can believe in, the change we need or the change we need to be.  Sorry I get confused with all the Obama platitudes of the campaign trail and their, now, obvious meaninglessness.  The sad thing is we’re , let’s see…30 days into the administration?  Oy vey.

I sure hope he can turn it around.

I also understand, because I wrote about it several times, that it’s foolish to place all our “hope” in the abilities of one man, one politician, one party, etc.  I still think President Obama is a gifted, intelligent and well-meaning individual, and that he can still have a very successful administration.  I hope he does, and I hope that congress can be turned over like the tables in the Temple courts.  That bunch may be simply incorrigible.

Stimulus? Or Political Point Scoring?

I’ve often said that President Obama’s discussion of the economy, and the mainstream media’s parroting of it, has been likely bad for the economy but good for his election in November and his positioning of the Stimulus package that just passed congress with nary a congress member actually reading it.  But Economics professor, Bradley Schiller, says it quite well in this WallStreet Journal Op Ed.

Some cool headed thinking might be in order.  I hope the President’s mind is as apt as his mouth.