You Can Fight Fire with Fire but Can Debt be Cured with Debt?
Posted: Saturday, February 07, 2009
by Ken McCreless
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Greetings Fellow Travelers
As of the writing of this article the president is still going forward with the "stimulus" package, consisting of pork, pork, and more pork.
I have been in the medical field, as a Registered Respiratory Therapist, for some time now, mostly in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, (NICU). I tend to see things from the perspective of how the human body works. You know, like computers and the brain, TV and the eyes, microphones and the ears, and on.
I want to compare President Obama's plan with how things work in the NICU.
First, think of taxes being like energy expended in the processing of nutrition. It is required that money be spent for our defense, roads, etc. Now, think of the first round of bailouts, the infamous TARP, and compare that to actually bleeding- profuse bleeding- as energy expended without any benefit to the donor.
There are times that a patient's blood can be filtered and put back in, but not if it is spilled out onto the floor, as was the first $350,000,000,000, with a few drops being properly accounted for. There is no doubt in the mind of the American people that the second round will fare no better.
There never is a case where ALL the blood removed can be replaced. Some of it will be lost in tubing, filters, and other forms of attrition. But this is merely a stop-gap operation. If more blood is not available, or plasma or platelets or some kind of volume to keep a viable fluid circulating, the patient will not have a future.
Should the case be that more is taken out than is put back in, you'll have the same results.
So, here's the deal.
I have made my feelings clear to the White House, through the White House.gov website, for what it's worth. As bad as the economy will be if we "do nothing," I am afraid things will be far worse if we try THE SAME TACTICS, i.e. tax and spend, that got us into this mess. This "stimulus plan" is the same kind of thinking as previous administrations, a sure departure from the "change" promised.
We know how to make things right and a LOT of us are doing it, which is pay down debt and save. The two things that the governments stuffed shirt, talking head "economists" have told us are the wrong things to do.
How does this compare with my example? The president wants to bleed us, promising to fix our broken body with our very own life's blood, but to take money out of the economy, combine it with BORROWED cash, and inject it into back into our system is insane.
Give us nutrition and time to fix our problems. One great way to do this would be to help small businesses. Tax breaks, in the form of a lower income tax rate, would stimulate the economy immediately, and help those who can truly fix the problem; the American people!
And, I hope President Obama reads this-(ahem)-STOP BORROWING MONEY!!! Our precious country is being sold into slavery to countries like China ! Or do you not believe the saying that "the borrower is slave to the lender?"
The people of the United States are more than capable. We need a smaller government and less intervention form this entity that pays people to not work, while economically strangling those hardworking folks who are trying to get ahead- honestly.
There, I've said it. I know, it's merely venting and I should contact my politicians. I did send a message to the White House. Have you?
www.whitehouse.gov
Thank You, and Good Night
As of the writing of this article the president is still going forward with the "stimulus" package, consisting of pork, pork, and more pork.
I have been in the medical field, as a Registered Respiratory Therapist, for some time now, mostly in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, (NICU). I tend to see things from the perspective of how the human body works. You know, like computers and the brain, TV and the eyes, microphones and the ears, and on.
First, think of taxes being like energy expended in the processing of nutrition. It is required that money be spent for our defense, roads, etc. Now, think of the first round of bailouts, the infamous TARP, and compare that to actually bleeding- profuse bleeding- as energy expended without any benefit to the donor.
There are times that a patient's blood can be filtered and put back in, but not if it is spilled out onto the floor, as was the first $350,000,000,000, with a few drops being properly accounted for. There is no doubt in the mind of the American people that the second round will fare no better.
There never is a case where ALL the blood removed can be replaced. Some of it will be lost in tubing, filters, and other forms of attrition. But this is merely a stop-gap operation. If more blood is not available, or plasma or platelets or some kind of volume to keep a viable fluid circulating, the patient will not have a future.
Should the case be that more is taken out than is put back in, you'll have the same results.
So, here's the deal.
I have made my feelings clear to the White House, through the White House.gov website, for what it's worth. As bad as the economy will be if we "do nothing," I am afraid things will be far worse if we try THE SAME TACTICS, i.e. tax and spend, that got us into this mess. This "stimulus plan" is the same kind of thinking as previous administrations, a sure departure from the "change" promised.
We know how to make things right and a LOT of us are doing it, which is pay down debt and save. The two things that the governments stuffed shirt, talking head "economists" have told us are the wrong things to do.
How does this compare with my example? The president wants to bleed us, promising to fix our broken body with our very own life's blood, but to take money out of the economy, combine it with BORROWED cash, and inject it into back into our system is insane.
Give us nutrition and time to fix our problems. One great way to do this would be to help small businesses. Tax breaks, in the form of a lower income tax rate, would stimulate the economy immediately, and help those who can truly fix the problem; the American people!
And, I hope President Obama reads this-(ahem)-STOP BORROWING MONEY!!! Our precious country is being sold into slavery to countries like China ! Or do you not believe the saying that "the borrower is slave to the lender?"
The people of the United States are more than capable. We need a smaller government and less intervention form this entity that pays people to not work, while economically strangling those hardworking folks who are trying to get ahead- honestly.
There, I've said it. I know, it's merely venting and I should contact my politicians. I did send a message to the White House. Have you?
www.whitehouse.gov
Thank You, and Good Night
Ken McCreless is just a guy who loves to write, and was born to do so. He is a freelance writer with several projects ongoing, including books and magazines. A huge fan of both irony and history, Ken has dedicated his life and his writing to serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Top-level comments on this article: (8 total)Ken,What a great article! Your comparison to the way things work in NICU made it most understandable. I hope others read this and realize that the answer does not lie in more government but in less.Thanks for some very good words,NancyThank you so much, Nancy. Government need not be so huge and ineffective.
Ken, Loved the article, and I echo your thoughts. This was very well thought out, and what you are saying is absolutely true....and yes, yes, yes....I have also echo'd my thoughts to Capitol Hill, at White House.gov, I have written them as a matter of fact several time, as well as my congressman!!! Great article buddy, and keep up the good work....Your friend and fan in pen......Gary......We as citizens have that responsibility, don't we Gary? Thank you for your good citizenship, not to mention your wonderful comments. YOUR friend in pen, Ken
Ken, I'm afraid your intellect, logic, rationale, and common sense are too obvious to ever be thought of as a viable option yet alone solution.. Jane Bullard suggested they all go home. I think you and she are on target. I admire you for tackling this and taking it as far as you could; and that was to the government. Well-delivered, Ken.Thank you Avis. Should my writing career take off you might just see me running for senator. I'm not likely to be elected--just not pretty enough-- but maybe some positive change will take place. Thanks again for the support.
hi ken,it's so hard to know what to believe, especially when i want to remain optimistic. i will give Mr. obama a little more time to catch up, and see what he does. he stepped in s...when he went to the white house, i think it will take a while to step back out, no matter who he was.you would think that anyone who had the desire and intelligence to be president, would have run for office.maybe he did,thanks for a good article bud,my best,sueI did not vote for President Obama, but was more than willing to support him-until he chose Hillary CLinton as SoS. But I'll still support him, after all, he is my president. I just hope his campaign for change was not all balloon juice. Thank you, Sue.
sorry if it is off topic but how do i get to the section on here for fishing and inventions because i was thinking of an invention for fishing it is berly of a plastic case with holes you clip onto your line without having to change the hook and all that and put in a dissolvable tablet that smells like fish or is oily.You might want to contact the webite administrator about that.
I like the analogy of the economy as a patient in the hospital. However, I'm not sure politicians have the answers the nation needs. The Republicans or Conservatives got their turn as majority in both houses of Congress plus the White House, and what did the small government people do? They gave all the business tax breaks imaginable, and what did the Wall Street business machine do? Whose policies got us into this mess? Thus the Democrats now have their turn to keep things the same, make things better, or screw things up some more. I'm afraid we'll have to judge the Democrats the same way the Republicans have been judged by the people through the ballot box: by the results of their policies. We are stuck with politicians and business people who seem incapable of solving our daunting problems. Will a really great leader arise one day to redeem the nation? That's the people's hope, unless we consider our downward spiral irreversible. ~mogama~You are right, Mogama. But how many choices did/do we have? It seems I have to choose between the lesser of two evils every time and cannot get excited about either. I am convinced more than ever that it is a human nature problem that crosses all lines, whether race or circumstance. I am listed officially as a Republican but have voted Democrat, and even Independent, many times. Thank you for reading and commenting, I appreciate it.
You are so right! What did Einstein say: "You cannont change a problem with the same thinking you used to create it."
That would be the intellectual way of saying "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got."
Funny us "commoners' can figure this out. What does that say about the politicians?
I can tell you one politician saying the same thing as those of us that can read the writing on the wall, although he's pretty much TOTALLY ignored by the media. That would be Ron Paul.
Keep writing it! ValThank you, Val. Yes, there were certainly other, and, to me, more qualified candidates out there. But, sigh, it is more of a beauty contest.
You don't fix debt with more debt. You might sometimes fix a sudden financial emergency with temporary debt. When we had our car accident, and my wife was in the hospital and suddenly we couldn't work, our economic needs went on, and increased with out of pocket hospital bills and high COBRA bills, and the only way we could survive was to go into debt. Once the emergency was past I was able to go back to work, we could stop going deeper into debt and start working to get our debt down. That is all that is going on here. Obama going into debt to address our national fiscal crash and once we get past the trauma of the moment we stop going further into debt and start working to get the debt down. Maybe it won't work. Sometimes people go into debt to save themselves and the debt gets greater and greater until they no longer have the will or opportunity to stop charging and pay off, and instead just go bankrupt. I won't say I know how things will turn out, but I am hopeful that this Obama plan is possible, and I prefer it to continuing down the path of Republican tax cuts to the rich and ignoring the needs of the non-rich.
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