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All This Talk About Change And Hope Is Foo-Foo Dust

Can you eat hope? Can you educate your kids on hope? Likewise with change. Talking about hope and change is great, but what does talking do?

All the candidates are talking about change, Obama talks about hope also. Great words and he is an inspiring speaker. I have suffered through 8 years of a president that can’t talk and the previous 8 of another president that could but made me feel unclean everytime he did.

I have rediscovered that talk is over rated. It in it’s self does not do anything.

Action makes change.

Hope is merely a desire that someone else will act.

Talking about hope and change is merely a way to avoid talking about specifics. Hope and Change are in themselves not specific, generalisms that everybody can identify as something good. Who doesn’t want change? Change is good! Things might get better, I “HOPE”.

I have listened to Obama with deep deep listening skills and when he does talk about actions, I hear the same old same old. Nothing new here, just someone new to deliver it. Increased funding for programs with little to no demonstrated benefits and a deep deep feeling of concern added on top. Increased government oversight and control.

Now Caroline Kennedy has appointed Obama the new JFK. After reading her piece it’s clear to me that talking about hope and change in a convincing way is the JFK legacy. At least according to his daughter it is. And that his great gift was inspiring others to get in to politics and get involved.

Getting people involved in the issues is always a great and good thing.

Too many Americans are letting their government run on auto-pilot. Guided by sound bites and throw away lines.

So let us stop talking about hope and start talking about the specifics of the change.

What changes do you want? How should they be achieved?

Do you wanted increased funding of social programs? Decreased?

Do you want to pay for increased fundings? (The government is already your biggest expense at over 40% of your income.)

Do you want to be told where you can live?

Should you have the right to choose a school based on what you feel is best for your child or based on geographical location and not whether you can afford to live in the “right” geographical location?

Do you want increased government control over business and hence our personal lives? Less?

Do you want the government to continue to debase our dollar and hence our retirement funds? Or is it ok, because the government will take care of you in your old age?

Do you like being able to make a doctor’s appointment and see a doctor the next day? Or would you like to be put on a waiting list and possibly die before being seen?

Who is responsible for you? You or the government?

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