Can You Make A Silk Purse? Part 2

I hate to parrot the radio pundits but the local afternoon guy on WSPD had an interesting caller this week. It was call in with your own version of a stimulus package. The caller started out giving population statistics. The US has about 300 million people. If you boiled it down to adults, not in jail you have about 200 million. If you then looked at households, it would be about 100 million. If you gave household each of them $1,000,000 with certain stipulations it would cost $100 trillion. So the stimulus package is $750,000,000 which is considerably less than the caller's number. Dividing it up would amount to only about $7500 per family. Nothing to sneeze at but not enough to dent a mortgage or buy a car.

What the radio host told the caller is that there were two serious flaws with his theory. Beside the obvious magnitude of the population versus available dollars, the host told him that since he was using logic to solve the problem, it would not work. Since our elected officials do not understand fixing something without throwing massive amounts of money at it, distributing those funds to those who could stimulate the economy would not make sense. We need to throw the money down the rat hole for our elected officials to feel that warm glow of success.

The second reason the host indicated it would not work is that holding the purse strings is how our elected officials control us. Since they have the ability to legally steal from us in almost any fashion they can dream up, giving us back the money to allow us to stimulate the economy removes that power from their hands. It eliminates our need for them which is in their mind the only reason we exist. We are there for them to take care of and provide for. It is not about doing what is right for us. It is about fulfilling their purpose for living. We have created the ability to elect, at least in their minds, gods (with a little g) to provide us with a sense of purpose; to keep them in office so they can assert more control over our misdirected lives. It is about ego and megalomania. And that makes them larger than life? (walking cheerfully out of obscurity into a dream...)

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Cobb