"Change For the Better....Or?"

I am trying really, really hard to "grab on" to something positive coming from the Obama administration to make me feel "good". But I don't see anything. I'm looking to the horizon but I still don't see anything there, either.
We've elected the first Black President to the highest office in the land. That is a good thing. And it certainly says alot for this country who has had its share of problems and guilt to deal with. It says alot about the American people who don't care about color but care about the individual.
I know there are some who still cling to the past but the past is just that...past. We are living in the now--it is a gift--the present. Something unopened until we open it. From there we move forward to face new challenges, right wrongs, set the record straight.
After saying all that, I was hoping for "more" from Mr. Obama. I was hoping for "real" change, not what you have left, jingling in your pants pocket. For example: How about smaller government? How about a President who believes in empowering people, not subjugating them? How about a return to the Free Enterprise System? I can see clearly now that this "Socialism" thing is not going to work. Why can I see this and not the President?
Mr. Obama, just where is the job creation? We certainly need it with over 500,000 people lining up for unemployment each month and our factories, manufacturing plants continuing to close down and moving overseas. Didn't I just read somewhere that GM, after taking a government bailout has decided to close its plants here and move offshore? Sure, the government is creating 60,000 new jobs but they are government jobs NOT private sector jobs. Why haven't we started drilling here, drilling now? What about building more nuclear power plants? I understand that one of the western states, I believe it's Montana, has one of the biggest coal reserves that we haven't even begun to tap into. Why not? I haven't heard one word from the administration on this subject. Not only would drill here, drill now, building nuclear power plants, and tapping into our vast coal reserves start us in the right direction of making us energy independent, it would also create thousands of jobs. Mr. Obama, where's your answer to this?
And why the strong emphasis on finding ways of taxing us more instead of reducing our tax burden? It seems that this new administration has a "mobster" mentality...the more money it can get its hands on the more its "pleasure meter" goes up and the more they feel empowered.
Now we are talking universal health care which will be another government program and without a doubt a huge government bureaucracy. And the American taxpayer will be required to shoulder most of the cost. And it should give one pause for concern to contemplate our health care in the hands of the government.
We all realize that Wall Street made mistakes, had problems but we don't need to continue to light sticks of dynamite and throw them at the banks and financial institutions watching them implode from within when we're trying to solve a problem and create some stability in the financial market.
And then we have the government intervening in the automobile industry. I wonder what kind of car will emerge? Will any big trucks survive? We all know what the fate of the maligned SUV will be.
Does anyone see a pattern here?
Could we not look at making what we already have in place work better? For example, instead of Doctors being saddled with tons of paperwork, let's go back to "See for Service". That's what I said..."SEE FOR SERVICE". You see the Doctor, he takes your temp, prescribes some aspirin, and you pay your bill...directly to him. See?? No paperwork, no waiting, no referrals. Can we get back to some simplicity, please? It seemed to work very well in the past and there's no reason why it won't now. And yet it appears things are getting more and more complicated. Why is this?
I believe it's because the "change" we voted for was misspelled. The "change" Mr. Obama was talking about while out campaigning was "CONTROL." Government control over everyone and everything. It doesn't matter if you're a backyard gardener, change is coming in the form of paperwork and fines if you don't "comply"; it doesn't matter if you're on an assemblyline building cars, change is coming in the form of "Card Check;" it doesn't matter if you smoke, change is already here in the form of huge tobacco taxes; and now we have another "change" on the way that Mr. Obama wants to implement--"Universal Health Care." One Size Fits All--the "Nanny State"--BIG GOVERNMENT. Under G.W. Bush we thought we had BIG GOVERNMENT but WOW, now we can actually see what really, really BIG BIG GOVERNMENT looks like. It's up close and personal now, folks. Thank you Mr. Bush and the Republicans, and Democrats, and the public school system, and the NEA, and anyone else who would like to take credit for where we are now....for paving the way for Mr. Obama, and my special thanks to all of those who voted for him. We all thank you, along with my elderly parents, my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, my great great grandchildren and great great great grandchildren.
Remember the t.v. show, "You Asked For It?" Need I say more?
Is there anyone out there who voted for Mr. Obama who bothered to ask, "Mr. Obama, just exactly what the heck is this "change" you keep talking about? I'd like an answer to this question before I vote for you".
Apparently not.