Democrats can bring needed change
Change. A word that can be explained within itself. It doesn’t need a meaning, because most people know what the implication of the word is.
Some people like to talk about change until your ears “start bleeding” (as my sister calls it, when one talks too much), while others ignore the call for it. This is especially true during this year’s presidential campaign. With so much talk about change, who is the best candidate to implement it?
I have a candidate in mind, but to appease liberals and conservatives alike, I don’t believe any candidate can implement all the changes he or she wants, regardless of party. On the other hand, I believe one party has a little bit more of an upper hand on change than the other one. The Democrats look good this year; while they may disagree on little issues, they have a basic idea of the issues at hand. The following is a list of the major issues at hand this year (especially for those of you who have been living under a rock since Christmas of 2006).
We need a change in our international affairs and policy realm. Now that the British have been slowly taking their soldiers out of Iraq, all the candidates running for president voted for the troop surge, and thus to extend our stay in the middle of this horrid civil war.
Meanwhile, Americans here are waiting for the fall out of the housing crisis: people who should not have gotten loans did receive them and bought houses that normally would have been way out of their range. This has thrown the economy into a spiral, including a possible recession (we won’t know until the end of the third quarter this year).
Graduating this year? You may be looking for a job in a weaker U.S. economy than last year, or the year before, which you can not only thank the housing crisis but also China and India for that matter. According to the Foreign Trade Statistics of November 2007 (put out by the U.S. Census Bureau), the U.S. had a balance of -$63.1 billion. And yes, that is a negative balance.
While those issues are being debated, from California to Georgia, farmers will have a heck of a time getting all their crops picked and ready for market. The reason is there are not as many migrant workers as there were last year, thanks to various state and local laws, which hindered their coming into America to look for a better life than they have in their home country.
Therefore, with fewer choices in fruits and vegetables and rising oil prices, you can bet your bottom … no wait …you can bet your last dollar that you won’t be eating as healthy again this year. That is sad, since much of America does not get enough fruits and vegetables as it is. College students are actually among the worst in this category.
However, there is light at the end of the tunnel, GP is looking at a higher gross quarterly and annual profit than last year, since America is competing with another country, which has a billion and a half people for this precious black gold. You know that country over there that is forcing our trade gap. You guessed it: China!
While the Republicans are squabbling over whom sounds more like Reagan, without even talking about getting anything done, the Democrats are promoting their message of change. Democratic candidates from the most popular (Obama) to the one who calls himself “the Sea Biscuit” of this race (Kucinich) can sense something stirring in the air among Americans dissent with the current regime, and they can and will act on their rhetoric of change.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Feb 1 2008. Filed under Opinion.
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