OPINION:
Preceded by government growth under Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, as well as the Sixteenth Amendment, six years of an Obama administration has turned the federal expanse into a terminal case of social, political, economic and national-security disease.
Even though there was a revival under President Reagan and the Newt Gingrich congressional Contract with America (and the American people have since elected another Republican Congress to fight the liberal disease) President Obama has made it painfully clear that he will not be deterred from finishing his legacy terms, regardless of the consequences. Those consequences are forthcoming in the form of social, political, economic and national-security disasters.
There is but one cure for these cancers, and that is to significantly reduce and limit the size, scope and power of government over our lives by electing a president and vice president capable of taking on the extremely difficult job of real leadership.
Indeed, “It’s time for a change” is no longer a hackneyed phrase in these critical times of social, political, economic and moral decay brought on by the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s. We must recover our social compatibility, political integrity, economic growth and military and foreign policy strength with true leadership that simply gets things done.
At this point in the 2016 presidential-election run-up, those leaders appear to be Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and Carly Fiorina. So, my fellow Americans, let’s wake up and get it done for our survival and the survival of our nation — and recover the land of the free and home of the brave.
DANIEL B. JEFFS
Apple Valley, Calif.
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