February 1, 2009 – Towards the beginning of the movie National Treasure, starring Nicholas Cage, there is a verbal exchange between Ben Gates, (Cage’s character) and Riley Poole, his loyal sidekick. After reading a portion of the Declaration of Independence, Gates murmurs, “People don’t talk like that anymore.” To which Riley Poole says, “Beautiful, uh, I have no idea what you said.”

I can empathize with that sentiment, and even take it one step further, people don’t think like that anymore either. However, it is not merely the eloquence with which our founding fathers wrote that is missing, it is the passion for those beliefs that people lack today.

February 1, 2009 – By now most Americans have experienced extreme disgust upon hearing about the nearly $20 billion in bonuses given to people in New York City’s financial sector at the end of 2008.  After sending the nation into the current economic black hole there is no way of comprehending the audacity of financial company executives in giving themselves and their colleagues shameful rewards for abysmal and disgraceful performance.  Other than screaming and moaning about all this dishonorable behavior what should the Obama administration and Congress do?