Comically billed as an economic stimulus and recovery act, 2009’s HR1 is nothing more than a liberal bribery and voter recruitment program. It is, without a doubt, just one of many tools in the liberals’ ongoing war on prosperity.

Meanwhile our new leader remains stuck in campaign mode, apparently unaware that leadership, not hope and promises, is the order of the day. The 44th POTUS has taken two vacations in less than 30 days on the job. Additionally he’s been jetting about (at a cost of $68,000 per hour) like a nervous candidate, not a sitting POTUS. Last night he delivered another state of his ego speech, apparently unaware that he won the election. Hint to the POTUS – what you say is immaterial now, it’s what you do that matters. As the old saying goes – get to work.

Remember too the lesson of POTUS 42 – ride the horse too hard and you get … Newt Gingrich. A steady hand on the tiller - not incessant meddling is what’s needed today.

As the democrat’s war on prosperity rages on, we keep hearing from the POTUS and his congressional cronies that they are busy trying to deal with a situation they "inherited." That is patently untrue.

Democrats have had defacto control or procedural blocking of the U.S. Senate by virtue of either majority control or cloture veto power since the 1920s. They have had total control of the House of Representatives for the last two years. What we are experiencing today is the fruits of the democrat’s legislation either by majority control or by blockage of legislation they opposed via procedural rules in the Senate. They did not inherit this mess; they are the architects of it. In fact, 44 voted for several of the things he now complains he "inherited."

Perhaps the most astounding political event of modern times is that the American people, confronted with troubling times, elected more of the people politically responsible for this mess to fix it.

There is no hope and change we can believe in in the new administration so far. For all the promises of the last two years, all we’ve seen to date is resurrection of the same old tax and spend liberalism that has failed this country time and time again.

Many politicians mislabel our current turmoil. So far, it is nowhere near as bad as the economic malaise created by Jimmy Carter, nor is it a crisis rivaling the great depression. That is another patently false characterization.

Unemployment would have to be five times greater than what it is today; about 5,000 more banks would have to fail and the stock market would have to lose a lot more of its value to come anywhere close to the great depression.

Politicizing parts of the economic process (where politics don’t belong) caused the current calamity - much like government meddling prolonged the great depression. Government’s so-called solutions to our problems today are as misguided as those of 1929 but in slightly different ways. The end result however, which is an overall worsening of the problem, is still the same.

I am reminded of the depression of 1920, which was far worse than the collapse of 1929. Never heard of the frightening depression of 1920? That’s because even though it was initially more severe than the great depression, it only lasted a year. What did the government do back then? Stimulus spending? Big expansion of government? No. They only did one thing. They cut the income tax rate by two-thirds and the depression of 1920, brought on by an end to WWI, was over by 1921.

There is a historical lesson there for the POTUS and his liberal congressional friends. Unfortunately their refusal to recognize it comes at your peril, not theirs.