We need big change come November

I'm neither a lawyer or a historian but I don't think it's correct to suggest that the Supreme Court's overturning of a law enacted by Congress would be an unprecedented action by a simple group of unelected people. If that's what our president taught students as an instructor of constitutional law, we shouldn't wonder why his college transcript has been such a mystery.

Admittedly, I'm not a politician or a mathematician either, so I can't figure out how our president can suggest that his proposed “Buffett tax” will “stabilize our debt and deficits for the next decade” if the expected revenue is only $4.7 billion a year. That amount, collected for 250 years, would still be less than his proposed budget deficit for this year alone! This one-year's deficit, is greater than the $1.3 trillion cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 10 years.

Nevertheless, I do have an interest in these matters: I am an American citizen, a taxpayer and a voter. Three years ago, we, the people, were promised “hope and change“ by a “great uniter.”

It seems to me that the changes we've seen are to government by executive order, regulation by unconfirmed czars, shameless demagoguery, lies, distortions, racial tension and class warfare. Oh, yeah, and the Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden.

Let's hope for a better change in November.

Jay Kacena

Marion