SHOW ME THE MONEY

The administration’s economic stimulus program designed to head off or alleviate recession is a fraud.

Putting a few hundred bucks into folks’ pockets may reduce the collective blood pressure over our economic slide towards the abyss, but it will not stem that slide.

The reckless borrowing, investing six hundred billion dollars annually in military death and destruction, refusal to rebuild America’s infrastructure, shoveling hundreds of billions into the coffers of the oil producers, allowing the world’s most inefficient health care system to ignore tens of millions, and elimination and transfer of good jobs to ambitious, hungry countries like India and China, represent an unstoppable juggernaught of decline.

For those who prefer delusion, they can always fall back on the President’s painful sound bite: “The American economy is fundamentally sound.”

Originally published in Chicago Tribune, January 24, 2008
Published in Glen Ellyn Sun, February 1, 2008