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President Obama’s answer to our raging debt dilemma is a bipartisan Deficit Commission of 18 to kick his can of worms down the road for a while, and, he hopes, concur on a solution that he can toss to Congress for an up or down vote.

Fourteen of the 18 commissioners must give their stamp of approval on the deficit reform bundle before the matter can go before Congress.

If the president’s service to his cause is only standing and waiting, nothing of consequence will happen.

The New York Times states, “Without strong White House leadership, the commission’s plain truths — ‘The problem is real. The solution is painful. There’s no easy way out. Everything must be on the table. And Washington must lead.’— will get lost in the political cacophony. And the country will keep digging itself into an ever deeper hole. ”

What the Times refers to as a “hole” could be the great national cataclysm that I have been anticipating for some time.

Questioning actions abroad

The trusting U.S. public elected a president who has delighted in speaking disparagingly of the U.S. when he is abroad.

He shows his disdain for sacred elements of our American heritage by repeatedly misquoting our Declaration of Independence, leaving out the same key words, which seem to be “erased” from his ever-present teleprompters.

President Obama is well on his way to carrying out George Soros’ imperative, i.e. to bring the U.S. down to the level of a third world nation. Obama’s mission seems, to vigilant observers, to concern itself with destroying honored American values. Has he done anything at all to raise the aspirations and expectations of our people?

Obama has already got major parts of our economy socialized and under government control: General Motors, Chrysler, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and banks are no longer the free entities that they previously were. How much more will Obama want in the next two years? How much more will we let him have?

The glorious dreams of Washington, Madison and Jefferson evanesce farther and farther into the shadows, to be trampled in the dust of passing time.

Parents vs teachers

Today, between the parents and the pupils, the teachers hold sway. Does the average kid listen more to his parents or to his teachers?

Optimistic parents hope that schoolteachers will teach kids the same moralistic values cherished by the parents. These days, where do schools find a sufficiency of teachers so brought up, so inclined and so directed?

Protect voting

In my early years, I felt it dishonest that my union dues could be used to support politics on which I had not been allowed to vote.

Unions are necessary, but they often improperly subvert propriety by requiring “card-checks” in public — a violation of privacy in voting.

As Americans, we must guard against deprivation of privacy in the voting system.

It occurs to me that life should resemble a football game in which each party plays hard to win, while observing agreed-upon rules that apply equally to everyone on the playing field.

Try hard as we may to keep them out, some rule-breakers sneak into the game, and the White House is surely the worst place to let them congregate.