Italy may have the answer after all

It takes courage to do courageous things. It takes leadership to be a leader. And in politics it probably takes grave circumstances to cause any real change. So in Italy we have all of those today. And what do we get? A leader, the new Prime Minister, Mario Monti, who installs a cabinet of NON-Politicians. Wow! What a novel idea? Instead of putting in his cabinet career politicians, he is doing the right thing and installing actual businessmen. Businessmen without political agendas. Businessmen who have other careers to fall back on as is not the case with career politicians. It might have taken extraordinary circumstances to get to this point, but at least it has happened before it was too late for Italy. We will see what happens over the next days and weeks with Italy. But rest assured that whatever happens will be significantly better than what the Berlusconi regime would have accomplished. So perhaps America needs to look across the Atlantic to Italy to see the beginnings of what it really will take to solve our problems at home. Remove the career politicians that have caused our budget crisis. And replace with people that understand budgets and tough decisions before it is too late.