Tomorrow is an historic day in the U.S. Our first black American President will assume the highest office in the land, and what most believe is the highest office in the world. Obama won the Presidency with a decisive mandate for “change that we can believe in” and beginning tomorrow we will begin to find out if this is for real, or simply more of the tired Washington rhetoric that we have all become accustomed to.

Unfortunately, and from what we’ve seen from Obama so far, it looks like more of the same “government is the answer, and an even bigger government will be the savior that we’re really in need of”. Folks, bigger government didn’t work during the Great Depression and it won’t work now. Revisionist history tells us that Roosevelt’s New Deal saved the US economy in the 1930’s, and without it we would not have survived. The truth however, is that Roosevelt’s massive tax and spend programs extended the economic pain and turned what would have been a bad recession into a global ...