Thursday, March 31, 2011

Huntsman for President?

I have seen a few people drawing connections between our current economic situation and the political leadership that allowed such things to happen. This is further echoed by the movie that we watched in class. When I read about these things I can't help but think about how hopeless the whole situation feels. We simply need to find a way to dig ourselves out of this slump. I think it's great that a lot of the people that are responsible for the crisis have been identified and hopefully in some due time they will be held accountable for the damage they have caused this country. At the same time I was reading about some of these people online I found yet another article about Jon Huntsman Jr's presidential ambitions. This article athttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/22/huntsmans_enviable_record_makes_him_competitive_109309.html, makes mention of how admirably Huntsman was able to manage the economy of this state. Making Utah one of the three most fiscally sound states in the union seems a pretty amazing accomplishment to me. The overall attitude of the population of this country right now seems bent on finding some way make ourselves financially competitve with other countries in the near future and I can't help but fear that, when people are allowed to create a situation where they are basically stealing from the masses in America, we are in real trouble of losing our place as the richest nation on earth. It's interesting that Huntsman seems to already be garnering so much support as a potential candidate in 2012, because it seems that people are realizing that there is real need for a leader who understands the need for financial responsibility as a nation. It seems to me like it would really be a step in the right direction to allow someone who has lead this state with such an impecible record to take a stab at doing so on a national level. So much of our cultural identity seems to hinge on our perception that we are always going to be the richest nation that I think we really need to start identifying ways we are going to retain that status.