After almost two years of hearing about 'Change' from Senator Obama, many are still wondering what exactly this 'Change' will be.

In case you've missed the past couple days, we've been having a little fun by intepreting what we think is actually 'Chump Change'. Today, it's his change, or lack thereof, with Social Security that we call into question.

Obama Change: Keep Social Security as it is and don’t allow it to be privatized.

Chump Change: Maintain a failed program when privatizing it would give twentysomethings more options with saving for retirement.

When Obama ironically fails to change our bankrupt system, he is forced to swap retirees’ monthly checks with coupons good for one Hot-n-Ready from Little Ceasar’s.

"I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn’t structured that way." - Barack Obama

If you think we've been a little hard on Barack Obama lately, you're probably right. It's because his economic worldview continues to be drawn into question with little more than a week until the election. By now, we're all familiar with Barack's conversation with "Joe the Plumber", where the democratic candidate advocated "spreading the wealth around".

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Aristotle had a unique outlook on life. He taught his students to live between extremes. In battle, for example, the extremes were cowardice and irrationality. Nothing was worse than cowardice, but a foolhardy rush to war with no consideration of the costs or risks wasn’t much better. Courage lay between the two. 

Courage recognizes the fear that drives the coward to inaction but acts anyway; however, such action is marked by caution and sobriety rather than haste and foolish bravado. Thus courage fits neatly between (and is superior to) the two extremes.

I’m no Aristotle, but if I could be so bold, let me give you this piece of advice: live between panic and intellectualism. It’s a little place called common sense, which I urge us to live in because it’s going to see us through the dark economic days ahead.

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