And I thought my jokes were bad.
Einstein once said that "we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling particularly sketchy about the United States government wanting to create 700 billion in credit (from you and me, that is) to 'bail out' our economy that appears on the brink of catastrophe because of ill-fated investments and unethical business practices. The worst part is, they aren't kidding. Many members of Congress really and truly want to use 700 billion dollars out of thin air in an attempt to fix our economy (which, mind you, they have no explicit Constitutional authority to do).
I have a thought, and that is this: let's not reward companies that have failed their investors by throwing more money a them. Let's give that money back to the people that it came from and start over. I don't claim to be an expert in finances by any means, but in concept, shouldn't these corporations lie in the beds that they made for themselves?
And while we're at it, lets give the President the authority to line-item veto so we can make jobs in Congress less appealing to crooks (just about all of 'em), who will no longer get away with the billions of dollars per year that is granted for special interests by necessity of passing legislation.
Yeah, I like it. Lets give the money back to the people and let a stronger economy without an excess of credit rise through the tainted ashes left in the wake of blood-sucking, power-hungry lobbyists, special-interest PACs and the congressmen and congresswomen that we are stupid enough to think are truly looking out for our best interests.
A couple more quotations that I find apropos:
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson
These thoughts came out more hotly opinionated than I had intended for them to be, but it is an important topic to consider deeply. What do you think about what's going on in our economy?
It sure sounds to me like the best plan our Congress has come up with at this point is to solve the problem of inflation with more inflation, which hardly seems sensible.
