bribing us into prosperity.

i see the government has had a sudden realization that we "may be heading towards" a recession and are scrambling to find a cure. the fed cuts the interest rate by 3/4% which, they say, will stimulate borrowing and borrowing leads to spending. brilliant. it was stupid borrowing that got us into this mess. ah, but not worry, they are also going to send all of us, with the exception of the poor of course, a check for, pick a number, 300, 800, 1,500 dollars. basically, they are going to try to bribe the american public to somehow forgetting we are in a recession. now where they are going to get this money from has not been said. no-one has suggested we quit spending billions upon untold billions of dollars in iraq and afghanstan and elsewhere in our bloated military budget and spend it here at home fixing our schools, our roads, our trains, our bridges, our water supplies, our public transportation. god no. wouldn't want that and all the good jobs it would create. no talk of getting help for american companies to build american factories on american soil employing american workers paying wages that would allow the factory worker to buy that thing that they make. (which is the problem with sending jobs overseas or south of the border, the workers in those countries are not paid enough for them to buy that thing they make. see, it is not lifting their wages so they can buy american things, it is, in fact, lowering american wages so that, in the long run, we won't be able to buy them either.) oh no. wouldn't want that. there is talk of giving more tax breaks to business so to encourage them to invest and thus hire more people but what companies really do with "new money", wherever it is from, during hard times is to hold on to it. why should they invest to build if there is no one to buy?

i have also noticed that the bush administration has publically stated that they are not looking for a long range plan but a short term stimulus. heaven forbid we think long range. the only long range planning the republicans seem to be doing is planning on us staying in iraq for decades. decades! how much will that cost? and to whom?

and final thought:

incidently, fyi, ky jelly comes in 5 gal. containers. who needs 5 gallons of KY JELLY? either a nymphomanic with a real tight pussy or the government because both plan on fucking a whole lot of people.