Posted on 03/15/2009 7:07:17 PM PDT by television is just wrong
Why isn't the economy getting better, even though the government is pumping trillions of dollars into bailouts and stimulus packages and intervening in markets left and right?
Because the government is treating the wrong patient.
Let's say you travel to the tropics and pick up a parasite. You go to your doctor who gives you very powerful drugs that make you sick. You go back to the doctor, he looks you over, and then adds more potent drugs to your prescription.
You go back a third time and say "Doctor, I'm getting sicker and sicker, why isn't it working?"
He responds "Oh, I thought the parasite was the patient. The drugs are making it healthier".
The Government is Strengthening the Parasite
Better planning will fix the unplanned disaster of the previous planners plans.
Not tomorrow, but soon, someday, off in the hazy mists of little children and young Marxists everywhere.
Yes, Obama is propping up failed institutions and ‘spreading the wealth’ (feathering the nests of his base).
These actions will, as before, deepen and prolong the depression. Things will get really bad from mid 2010 on if this keeps up.
Gov’mt IS the parasite...
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