The presidents of the 20th century and their handlers were big on names FDR, the granddaddy of big government gave us the new deal. Harry Truman has the friar deal. JFK offered the new frontier. LBJ’s definition of excessive government spending was the great society. After the political Frankenstein experiment known as the Carter Administration, Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan  told us it was morning again in America. I’m not quite sure what Barack Obama’s minions have nicknamed the mess over which he’s---um presiding, but I’ll give it a shot. How about the dysfunctional disappointment? That is what our government has become. It hit me this morning as I was meandering around on the internet. On one of the web sites, an ad popped up inviting me to open a savings account with American Express, paying me a whopping one percent interest. When I was a kid, I can remember my father driving a half an hour because a certain bank was offering something like 12 percent on a cd and threw on a toaster or a color TV depending on how much you invested. Today a first grader could compound the interest rates. It doesn’t pay us to save. In part because all the government does is spend. Much of that involving money we as a nation don’t have. So we find ourselves on the first of October pondering who will lead us for the next 4 years. Do we want to return Barack Obama who hasn’t managed to get much of anything done or give the keys to the Mitt Romney who hasn’t quite articulated what he plans to do to turn things around?  If you believe the country’s in bad shape and you wonder how anyone would reward the guy in charge with another term, you might find the answer in the new York Times. One op ed columnist says it’s a matter of the national mindset changing. Gone are the days where we strived to get ahead. Now, we as a nation are satisfied with not falling behind. So long as we have some kind of job, a smart phone and reality TV and a government willing to pick up the tab when things do get tougher. Americans, like the economy, will just muddle along in the stagnant mode. As Mitt Romney’s been learning, stagnation and complacency are hard to run against in the land of entitlements.