Q: How can we get rid of Obama if there's nobody decent to replace him with? Is anybody better than Obama?

A: It's simple. You replace Obama with somebody who will probably be just as bad, or perhaps a tad better. While it's regrettable not to find someone good, at least you will have removed the present problem. More importantly, you get to repeal the principles of socialism which govern every moment of this administration.

The central demand of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest is, reportedly, that President Obama "ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington." Do they mean to imply that government and the economy should be separate? If so, I heartily agree; but I have a hunch this is not what Occupy Wall Street is after. They want Big Government to replace big business. They believe that politicians like Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi will not only bring home the bacon, but distribute it fairly and equitably. Never mind that these politicians haven't the slightest idea where bacon comes from, have never produced bacon and merely seize bacon to give it to people who reward them with votes, money and power.

Liberal commentator Michael Moore had suggested that this is not like any other protest but this protest represents a variety of demands with a common statement about government corruption and the excessive influence of big business and the wealthiest 1% of Americans on U.S. laws and policies. The belief is held by some protesters that the President has become irrelevant, stressing the importance for the 99% to lead and inspire change.

So let me get this straight. The 99% of the population who doesn't have a lot of wealth will now control the wealth of the 1% who do. How can millions upon millions of people take control of all this wealth? Families of five or ten have been known to fight over far less wealth, to the point of lawsuits and years of never speaking to one another. And we're to believe that the overwhelming majority of Americans are going to be different when they seize the wealth of the 1% who have the most of it? This makes no sense at all.

Taking over wealth can mean only one thing, in practice: Handing all those billions of dollars in the private sector over to the federal government -- to the Obama Administration and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress who had better do its bidding. Control by the people means control by the politicians -- the favored politicians, that is, such as the liberal Barack Obama and his cohorts. 

Herman Cain may be a decent man and he might make a slightly better President than Obama -- which is saying almost nothing. But his idea that we can rescue the American budget and economy via a flat tax and/or a national sales tax is futile.

The following is a letter to the editor Dr. Hurd wrote to a local paper in Delaware, in response to a liberal's support of Obama's jobs bill.

In an October 5th Letter to the Editor, Peter Schott wrote, "If you look at those who the Republicans regard as job creators, you will find that many are truly job killers. When unregulated they merge, and no merger has ever resulted in more jobs being provided. They send work overseas, and no Americans gain jobs. They provide a few minimum wage jobs, which adds little to the economy by keeping people poor, while giving their corporate officers enormous salaries and perks."