It's Like A Cold

We are in the midst of a national if not world wide recession. If you were not aware of that, you must be working for the federal government or independently wealthy. The last time things were portrayed as this bad, we had a New York liberal with a knack for speaking well try to spend our country back to prosperity. FDR made the nation feel loved and taken care of with his fireside chats and public works programs. If you have managed to read any history of the Great Depression, you know that FDR failed to revive the country by throwing tax dollars at an economic issue. You cannot spend your way to prosperity. An economic downturn must run it's course with all the pain and suffering that goes with it.

It is just like the common cold that plagues us every winter. We run to the doctor and beg for shots and pills that will halt the coughing and stop the runny nose. But nothing cures the cold but time. The body will produce the antibodies that eventually kill the virus and the cold goes away on its own. All of the antibiotics do nothing but waste money and eventually create bigger issues as they create immune resistant bugs. Now we have something unexpected to deal with because we wanted instant gratification.

So here we have the porkzilla of spending bills passed by both houses and what will we get for it? We will be spending a trillion dollars on advancing the liberal cause in America and what will we have to show for it? A legacy that generations to come will have to deal with. It will all but bankrupt any chance our democracy has of being the shining light of freedom that we are envied for. If our government had our best interest at heart, they would let the disease run its course and we would come through it remembering the aches and pains and not wanting a repeat performance. But it is easier in the short term to try to avoid the pain instead of sacking up and letting the recession correct what man hath wrought.

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Cobb