A change of life?

Poor old America! We are battered by incoming reports of a decline in just about everything - the collapse of the housing market and the fall of old-and-steady banking institutions have combined with the outrageous manipulation of the oil market to bring gloom to household level.

Folk cannot afford to buy food and gasoline too. Many are unable to drive to work from the suburbs and jobless numbers are climbing out of sight. Public transportation cannot yet take the strain.

SUV and other gas-guzzlers are a drug on the market and Ford has stopped making pick-up trucks. New and revamped cars are appearing as an answer to the big wheel items.

Homes are in foreclosure status, leaving thousands of dwellings available with few buyers available to make them anything but eyesores.

Is THIS the change the candidates are promising for the remainder of our lives? Will our children and grandchildren be impoverished throughout the rest of our contemporary history - or are we being deceived by the media "chicken-littles" of doom?

Experience has shown us that these cycles, which always look larger than life, rather like a shadow one sees on walking past a graveyard at night, do tend to improve as long as we supply our inner core of basic integrity and a trustworthy use of our power and our bottom-line honesty.

Prosecute the cheaters and help the poor with tax rebates, after setting up a fair system of revenue. Go after the corporate crooks and con-men who steal from all the unwary, including their employees, who deserve a living wage with room for retirement. Get the colossal deficit down by true economy and smaller government. Stop whatever pandering one is doing with respect to giveaway schemes of health care or changing Medicare.

At this sitting, right at the midsummer of our discontent, while the VP selections are still in limbo and the panoply of conventions take place, we tend to get a little weary at the negative ads and the general effusion of hogwash from candidates and pundits alike. Actually, with respect to our America, we insist that there's life in the old girl yet, and we must hang in there together, to witness her ability to win any foot race we put her up to.

Stop the partisan bickering, elect a Congress that wants to help solve these matters that will dictate what our life-styles will be like and right about here, it doesn't really matter which of the contenders make the grade. America is tough!