Connecting The Dots . . . Keeping News In Perspective

The Prairie Advocate ^ | 10/14/09 | Mike Kocal

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A lot of people feel that conservatives are using "scare-tactics" in their efforts to gain more power and support. Yet, we've seen this done by both sides of the aisle for decades. There are certain things that we should be scared about because the fundamentals of our great nation have been compromised, whereas changes that have already occurred and changes that might be coming are eroding our freedoms, our spending power and our futures. Yes, we should be very concerned if not outright scared.

I was scared when the Bush administration pushed through the Patriot Act. I was scared during the Bush administration when our public debt increased to then record levels. I was scared when Bush was in office, yet grateful that we were not attacked on our homeland again after 9/11. The state of our economy was as concerning at the end of the Bush era as it is today, and all the bailouts and stimulus packages being discussed months ago just sounded bad to me. I watched these bills get signed into law without our leaders even reading the bills, and then learned that our national debt went from $500-some billion to nearly $2 trillion ­ all in the brief time Obama has been in office. That scared me even more! It also made me angry.

Obama said he would not allow any pork barrel spending, that unemployment would stop going up, but we all know neither was the case. Facts are facts. The national unemployment rate is now at 9.8%, and according to Obama earlier this year, it would not rise above 8.4% so long as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act was passed. Well, it passed, and unemployment has gone up.

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Good read from a young American. This well thought out commentary was published in our local paper this past week. We need more young men like this one.