Hey! where are our leaders?

Have you ever stopped to think about who our leaders are? If you really think about it we have none. Sure Pelosi and Reid make noise like leaders but have you noticed how the always hedge their bets? Bush has given up on leadership and is just sailing along for the next few weeks in limbo. Now we have Obama who charges like a leader but of what? We know so little about what he thinks and what his plans are. IF he turns to the middle as he did in the election he’ll lose his base, if he turns farther to the left he loses Americans in general. We have a few qualified to lead that have been pushed out of mainstream politics like Gingrich or Lieberman and we have Hillary but she sold her soul to Obama and left her constituents to fend for themselves. The ex President Clinton soiled himself and his legacy on Monica’s blue dress. Now we have none.

If I were President elect Obama I would come out as soon as possible with my first 100 day agenda to let the American people know where he is headed. If my guess is correct he will stay to the middle in most things but throw in a few leftist cupcakes to keep his people in line. Either way at least we know if we have a leader or a fight on our hands to save our Republic. His choice of a Cabinet will give us a few clues but it really should come from him directly.

The Congress led by Pelosi and Reid are screaming for a auto maker bailout to appease their comrades in the UAW but that will do nothing for the general population until the Big Three reorganize and get rid of the obscene UAW contracts that are now breaking these companies. Why throw good money after bad. I am not a anti union person but if you look into these half a$$ed agreements you’ll understand where I’m coming from. No company could exist under these terms and make a profit. People all over this great country would love to work for the Big Three but their ties to Detroit and the UAW have kept them from really diversifying their labor base. Toyota for example has built their labor base without the help of the UAW and their pay structure is in line with the rest of the country. They can produce cars and trucks here in America and show a decent profit in the end. I think the Saturn experiment is the answer, make the employee’s a partner in the companies and their pride in ownership will show in the end.

Item two on his agenda should be to let our military families know what their future is. Will he as stated immediately pull out of Iraq or has he tempered his decision with commonsense and will he listen to his Generals who are actually there. These kids need to know, they stick their necks out daily and what a shame if even one gets injured or slain only to leave everything undone in the next few weeks.
The thing everyone is waiting to hear is how does he plan to bring us out of this recession? Will he try to tax us out and destroy the economy further or will he build a partnership of both political parties to develop a workable plan to compromise and build a real solution that will last. I am anxious to see who his pick for what they called the Car Czar is, hopefully someone with real business experience and not a politician.

These are just a few concerns that I and many others have about the direction our country is headed. I hope we get the answers very shortly and these answers stir the market into a recovery mode rather than the unsettling show it has been putting on lately.

And that’s my opinion,
Don