There is a question I don't believe Barack Obama will want to answer during his campaign for re-election: Are Americans better off than they were when he took office? So what does he do? I believe he blames everybody but himself: George Bush, Europe, Japan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, earthquakes, hurricanes and of course the wealthiest 1 percent.

After three years of Obama's transformational policies, I believe the economy is weaker with no end in sight. But lo, I believe he has found a solution: Get his liberal friends like George Soros, MoveOn.org and the labor unions to create, fund and support the Occupy Wall Street movement. This fits in with his desire to counter the Tea Party movement but the difference between the two is like night and day. I believe the Tea Party wants less government, less regulation, less taxation, and less debt and Occupy Wall Street wants to destroy the successful and the wealthy.

The Obama administration has so failed that the only way to save it is to blame our troubles on class enemies - the rich. It appears to me that he really doesn't care about anything more than his re-election next year. How sad for our great country.

Wayne Farber

Bellingham