Eric Graven

Hermitage

Much is being said about change in the political forum right now. I’m not quite sure what that means, but most people don’t seem to like change. Most of us tend to do the same type of things throughout our lives.

However, if change is what’s needed and the two Democratic contenders both tell us that they have the plan to fix all the country’s ills, then I must ask this question. As majority party senators, why is it that they have not proposed a bill or bills that will fix all of theses problems already?

Laws can be created when a senator writes proposed legislation, works it with the House, builds a legislative consensus for a bill and presents it to the president to sign into law. Any repectible candidate would jump at the chance to say, “See what I did to help the American people?”

But nothing has happened. Is it simply they wish us to suffer? Or perhaps it is depraved indifference to our plight. A more plausible explanation is they really don’t have the solution; just rhetoric.

Change begins not with the presidency, but with the Senate. Two candidates propose change when change is already within their power. Perhaps the American people have granted them too much power already.