Here’s an idea, Mr. President
Yesterday, the President told us that, in a few weeks, he would be providing Congress with ideas about what Washington can do to fix our economic malaise.
Some will say, why can’t he do that now, if he has a plan. Priorities first.
Last night was a fund raiser, and next week is a bus tour through three states in the Midwest. I seem to recall that someone was ridiculed for having a bus tour earlier this year, but, I digress. Then, the following week, the President has his planned vacation at Martha’s Vinyard.
I am hoping that somewhere along the line, the President will read this post as it may help him present his plan.
In 1939, FDR’s Secretary of Treasury, Henry Morganthau, wrote this:
We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot.
I can only hope that President Obama remembers those words, as well as the words of George Santayana (1863 -1952), a philosopher, writer and poet:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
No infrastructure bank, Mr. President, no “cash for whatever”, no WPA, no CCC. Stop spending money on what you believe are “jobs” programs. That does nothing but increase the debt… something that Secretary Morgenthau, over seventy years ago, realized did not work. The government cannot spend our way out of this economic mess and into prosperity.
Let the American public do it.
History shows that we will do a far better job than the government.
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What saddens me, SOS, is that our government is supposed to be of, by and for the people of this country.? The political elite (no longer average citizens looking to serve their constituency in DC) have shanghaied the bus & have driven it full throttle into a ditch.? And Obama & the democrats have the keys.
Obama might appear at his next prime time speech in a wheelchair with new litany of people and things to blame to inspire Americans to AAA greatness.
Cut up the credit cards.? Now.? The credit card interest the country must pay is choking us.? (“Oh, it’s not interest?”? “No, it’s the cost to ‘service’ the debt.”? “You mean, like when the farmer lets his bull into the pasture to ‘service’ his cows?” ? “Now you’re getting it!”)
Now you know what “public service” really means!!
Well, MSNBC gets it.? After all, their slogan is…
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“LEAN FORWARD”
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It will only hurt a lot!
I think “Bend Over” would be far more apropos.
?bama wouldn’t know a good idea if he read it on the teleprompter.
Let’s have another war. That’s what happened shortly after 1939. This time though we should pay for it instead of putting it on the credit card.
Is that why we jumped into Libya?
Are we sure Obama can read?
Enough to mechnically repeat what he sees on a teleprompter anyway….
I’m sickened that he still doesn’t have any ideas. When he ran for President ( Oh I forgot he still is) he told us how he was going to change everything. Well exactly how did he think he was going to do that without ideas? Note to President Obama, this time when you run, have some ideas>
But he is so intelligent!!? I know, because the mainstream media keeps telling me so.? /sarc