Monday, April 20, 2009

Imminent?

There is now the possibility that real change might be coming to our wonderful nation. President Barack Obama announced last week that he will cut dozens of programs in an effort to "restore fiscal accountability to the federal budget." He has also said that there will be no favorites that will be spared scrutiny. I believe that this will happen during a special cabinet meeting where officials will be required to give report on the programs they watch over. If any of these are found to be lacking in purpose of not worth the money being spent, they will go down the tube. Fabulous...
...if it actually happens. I really hope that the current administration is serious about this. I know that he says there will be no "sacred cows" as he calls them, though I doubt he really would cut some of the larger departments that are mismanaging their funds and lack importance. I am quite interested to see the outcome of this call for fiscal responsibility.

Perhaps what intrigues me more and causes me a bit of cynicism is that this announcement came directly following the controversy concerning the President's upcoming budget. The proposed budget was, I believe, even larger than previous President George Bush's which drew much criticism from Democrats. Interesting that they are not in an uproar about even more money being spent by one of their own. It seems to me that President Obama made this announcement only in response to the budget controversy and not because he really wanted to do it. The budget was a test to see if people were really paying attention or if they were still just so excited to have a charismatic, and (as much as I'd like it not to be an issue it still is) black president. This has proven to the administration that ctizens are still watching closely. We've been offered the promise of Change, and we want it. Even if it is not the same change I personally desire, the people want change and so far have been offered nothing. i really do hope that the President and cabinet do take the opportunity to effect some real change and help restore the confidence American citizens should be able to have in their elected officials.

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