Keep the Change

By Gary Bauer

During a visit to Dearborn, Michigan, this week, Barack Obama told his audience, "In just three years, because of what you did in 2008, we've begun to see what change looks like." Oddly enough, some in the audience thought that was an applause line. It's more like a punch line to a bad joke. In my opinion, the past three years have been a gut punch to our country.

Let's consider the change we've experienced in the past three years:

• In January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8%. Now it's 8.2%.
  
  
• In January 2009, the average price for a gallon of gas was $1.86. Now it's $3.92.
  
  
• In January 2009, the national debt was approximately $10.6 trillion. Today it's $15.6 trillion.
  
  
• ObamaCare, the president's signature accomplishment, is deeply unpopular -- 72% of Americans oppose the individual mandate and 56% want it repealed.
  
  
• Food stamp usage is up 70% since the Bush years. (The annual cost of this one program is 16 times the revenue that would be raised by the so-called Buffett rule.) And disability claims are up dramatically too.
  
  
• After three years of Obama's change, only 35% of voters think America's best days are ahead of us and just 27% think the country is on the right track.

Obama can keep his change. What we need most is a change of leadership in the White House!

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