Who will govern America?

The dice is on the table and it is about to be cast. Who will inherit the mess left behind by the outgoing members of the ruling government?

Some media experts are tempted to say: it's too close to call! But we all know that America is in need of drastic changes, otherwise it's going to be a little bit more messier before the dust finally settles.

For a better part of eight years, USA has been faltering, stumbling and ambling along the fast-track highway of changes and precedents. The entire world is currently watching if Wall Street will implode.

Talk is rife that the US$700 billion bailout plan will eventually find its way to become law but at what cost? Many ordinary Joe in the street is aghast that so much has been put aside for Wall Street, instead of distributing it to the inhabitants of Main Street.

Naturally, there are apprehensions and misgivings. Who would want to sacrifice so much for thos corporate giants which have made a mess of their own institutions. Some are asking why are they accorded such massive financial privilegs when the very same institutions are extremely slow in sharing their well earned profits.

Nobody seems to have heard that banks and other loan-lending giants happily return a portion of their massive profits to the people who are their biggest supporters.

The financial infrastructure is already showing critical structural damage. The $700 billion plan is merely cement that will temporarily hold the cracks in the walls in place.

Who knows how long the cement can sustain the building? Meanwhile, the ordinary wage earner has to fend for himself and his loved ones. Will White House rush to the aid of the forgotten middle class and the derelicts of the no-class minority?

Who can forget the slowness in which aid arrived in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck? Who can forget the millions who have or will be losing their homes in the months to come?

Will there be another bill to save their ordinary homeowners? Aren't the people the nation as well?

In the next five weeks, a decision will be made as to who will step into the White House, the seat of power in which much has been achieved over the last century, and also of much that has not been done in recent memory.

The man and his party who will boldly stride into the august hallways of the White House, West Wing or Oval Office will realise that the subsequent four years will be crucial for all concerned.

It is not a holiday of billionaire proportions but rather a privilege to right all the wrongs that have come tumbling down the stairway of previsios administrations while the nation was sleeping.

If America has what it takes to hold on to its global reputation of having the brightest and the best and all those who have the right stuff, now's the time not only to prove it but also to show it.

America, you are clearly running out of time. Based on more than 200 years of wonderful and great achievements, this could be America's finest hour or its darkest. Be brave and walk into and through the Heart of Fear.