Its an interesting editorial I found Spread The Word:
It becomes more obvious every day that we are in the midst of an economic convulsion. The end result of this convulsion is not yet clear, but so far, the signs are not reassuring. While the Democrats continue bickering about who is going to change more, Obama or Hillary, the real question is what kind of change is needed. On the other end of the spectrum we have John McCain who professes not to know much about the economy. He is a foreign policy "expert" apparently, which will do you a world of good standing in the unemployment lines in the coming years. It will also greatly help you baby boomers when your social security payments are slashed by forty percent or more.

Let us state the problem in its simplest form: The economy is bordering on becoming an absolute mess. Oh we can weather the sub-prime storm, and the housing prices storm. But we cannot weather an unemployment storm. That is the key. If the other shoe falls (high unemployment) the entire house of cards will collapse.
I just have a few observations and questions.

Over the last fifteen years or so, many of you have said, "Oh I'll never get a dime of that social security." Well, you were right, but why didn't you do something about it? Why did you continue to let the media tell you things were going great, when a sixth grade mathematician could have told you the numbers weren't adding up. Why do you continue to support people for president who don't even acknowledge the long term problem? Have you heard Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain even once mention that we need to come up with about forty trillion dollars pretty quickly to cover the baby boomers' golden years?

We've doled out money for everything from atomic clocks, to extravagant prisons, to welfare for generations. We've fought wars, regulated business to death and back, and mortgaged ourselves and our country to the brink of disaster.

You voted for the fools, you embraced the silly programs, and now the bill has come due. Save for a few short years in the mid to late nineties there hasn't been even a glance from Washington D.C. towards fiscal responsibility . Ross Perot told us about this in 1992, and you let the media tell you he was crazy. He wasn't, he is simply intelligent and honest. But we didn't want to hear it.

The time is short. We have made this mess, and we must fix it. Write your congressmen today and tell him to stop looking to Ben Bernanke to fix the economy and start de-regulating business. Tell them to start drilling for oil in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. Tell them to cut the budget by ten percent. Tell them, no demand that they cut social security payments by 2.5% this year and 2.5% next year. This is especially important if you are on social security. Otherwise, the politicians will cut it much much more. Anyone who tells you he won't is nothing but a vulgar liar trying to get your vote. Any politicians who tells you we needn't cut social security is the worst kind of bastard. The kind who will sell his own mother and his own soul to get elected. We've had enough of these politicians haven't we? There are some fundamental strengths in the economy that cannot be over looked. We can build on these and turn this economy around. But it will take real, honest leadership.

We need to find a third party candidate and we need to do it now. A real leader who will say it like it is, and who will never compromise with either party because he owes them something. We need a leader who will veto every single bill until the congress gets it right. We can fix this, if we act now. Next year is too late one of the ship of fools will already have the power for four years. The Democrats are fighting over turf right now, and we cannot find Republican leadership with a search warrant. These people work for us, and it is time for no more Mr. Nice Guy.

If we as a nation don't act now, we have no one to blame but ourselves. America used to be a nation where , "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Where are all the tough guys?

Eric Gurr