These are anxious times, and the pols in Washington are aware of the economic difficulties facing the almost 7 million citizens who lost their jobs in the past 18 months, and who have, or will soon exhaust their unemployment benefits.
It is weird that those very people in greatest danger are agitating against the only agency that can rescue them---big government! Standing on the brink of bankruptcy they are ranting against deficit spending, the only tool available in time to save them.
If big government is the enemy, is NO government their friend? In the name of reigning in the evil of big government, big business, in the last 8 years, succeeded in wiping out, or greatly curtailing regulations designed to control risky and dishonest business practices which could harm the public. They got their wish, almost destroying the world economy, and shafting Mr.& Mrs. Average American. The public bought the mantra and is paying the price. The malefactors were bailed out by money from the very public they screwed, and are continuing to harvest obscene bonuses, instead of being fired or in jail.
Even the lowest species in the biological pyramid retain a survival instinct. Why have the highest order, humans, in the U.S. apparently lost theirs? Has our educational system failed us? Are we so narcotized by packaged entertainment that we have lost our ability to reason? Can we no longer distinguish between propaganda and facts?
There are none so blind as those who WILL not see. I am tempted to root for Congress
to revoke all stimulus legislation, just to administer a very basic, almost primitive lesson in economics. In a recession you don't reduce government spending,
you use it to revive a staggering economy.
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