The economic reality that growing numbers of individuals have lost jobs, assets, and have seen asset values decline; as well as the political reality that many more individuals are increasingly worried about losing their job, house, and savings is empathetically understandable.
Those realities provided an opening for political office holders and seekers who, along with their minions in the mainstream media, dutifully did their part to help fill it with a continuous cacophony of worry messages, designed to stoke people’s fears and prepare the public for the socialized “stimulus” solutions designed and packaged by political soothsayers.
Unfortunately, the simulated solutions already foisted on Americans - as well as those now being crafted - contain very little real free market content.
In fact, after an objective review of the long list of administration projects and programs, in search of real and substantive nutrition to aid our ailing economy, one recalls Walter Mondale’s plaintive call to Gary Hart during their 1984 primary debate, “Where’s the beef?”
Of course, some might counsel “what did you expect?”
If that includes you, I accept the point.
Perhaps, another apt description of the wasteful package of pork being foisted on America’s Citizens as economic stimulus - what was it the creator said about the old Jerry Seinfeld show on TV - “It’s… about nothing”.
Yes, it’s about nothing; but it’s even more about the deliberate turn to “port”.
Growing numbers of Americans are beginning to realize that the best direction for our American ship-of-state is always ‘Starboard’.
The course correction cannot wait for 2010, 2012 or beyond.
It’s ‘Right Full Rudder – Now’!