The thing about long drives is you get to think up a lot of...erm, blog posts. Only problem is I can't write them down fast enough while driving so I either have to jot down words in hopes of remembering the context or asking the back up mannequin posing as a mother in the back seat to write down words.
My scribblings, though perfectly in logical sequence at the time, becomes an incoherent haze.
It goes something like this:
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Peanuts
Crazy ladies/real estate
Green spending/taxes/Kermit
Finance 101
Hibuscus/elections Canada 1890s
Where I ask for help, thoughts of a lobotomy for me increasingly looks good to her. It's for the better.
The stories in my head begin to take a disjointed form.
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Speaking of finance 101. Here's a simple lesson everyone can grasp. If you have debts and you're prioritizing and organizing your life and budget, paying them down should be the FIRST thing on your agenda. If you own a line of credit or owe a friend cash for helping you buy that car you so wanted but probably didn't need, your responsibility is to them FIRST. You don't come first since you have OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
Alas, people don't see things that way and it's too bad.
Speaking of other people's money. The U.S. has decided that since FDR did it, it's a good idea to apply the concept of spending to dig an economy out of an economic mess. Aside from the fact that a debate continues about whether the New Deal actually did what it famously is said to have done, actually measuring what pulls an economy out of a recession is a murky art at best. And even if it did work, it doesn't mean it can still work today.
The Obama administration has been creative in its economic narrative positioning themselves as the ones who "saved the economy from the brink.
Hog wash of course since we don't know if the Americans actually reached a "brinking" point.
For all his suaveness, all Obama has done is introduce more regulations, more taxes, bail outs and stimulus.
Nothing creative. Been there, done that. I actually appreciate Obama's basic foreign policy tenets better despite failing to follow through on them in any meaningful manner. Maybe I'll yap about this in another post another day.
The cold hard reality is people who have never run a business are telling us they can "save" the American economy. If you went for a job interview and you had no practical experience in the field you're seeking employment in, what would the interviewer tell you?
Why should it be any different with politicians?
The main advantage these guys have is that they have access to your money and the chance to print more of it.
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
One thing is for sure, a politician can never say "we never give them our money."
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