The strange inner workings of the economy

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. . . and pour it in the shallow end

Letter to the editor;

(A very lengthy parable came in the e-mail. I only wish it were my original idea.)

To cut it short, a student asks his economics professor to explain the Stimulus Bill.

After class, the professor walks the student to a nearby swimming pool. They each dip two buckets of water from the deep end, walk around to the shallow end and pour it in.

After several round trips carrying water like that, the student says, “This accomplishes nothing. It’s a waste of time and effort.”

The professor says, “Now you understand the Stimulus Bill.”

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

National suicide

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Sinking your own ship

Letter to the editor;

Yoo – Hoo! Congress!

Let me tell you what you look like: You look like the crew of a damaged ship, in danger of sinking in the ocean – busily chopping holes in the very boat that carries you.

EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU KNOWS BETTER, but when you look around, everyone else is hacking thru the side of the ship.

The so-called stimulus bill is a one-way ticket to the bottom of the ocean.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

The arsenic cure

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The cure’s worse’n the disease

Letter to the editor;

When I lived in Guatemala a couple of generations ago, I got intestinal parasites. The cure was to administer arsenic. It worked. The other part of the treatment was to STOP feeding me arsenic at the appropriate time.

Now, it may possibly be that at some time or other it was beneficial to the nation for the government to throw money around. The trouble is, the politicians LIKED that and did it again and again. More and more. When it made the economy worse instead of better, they reasoned that they just hadn’t thrown enough money at it.

Now we are seeing this idiocy balloon into enormous proportions. They are treating the patient with arsenic, AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP!

It is impossible to tell what is in the mind of a politician that he or she would do such an obviously evil thing. It is likewise impossible to tell what is in the mind of the people to allow them to do such a thing.

H. K. Menken said that government is a fantasy by which everyone expects to live off of everyone else. That might be at the root of the problem.

If that is the case, then as Pogo said, “We has met the enemy, and he is us”.

It is enough to make reasonable people think that when God said, “Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor’s,” He might have known what He was talking about.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

Constitutional authority

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Federal spending authority

Letter to the editor;

(An open letter to your Congresscritter)

Do you get your authority by way of the Constitution?

(YES.)

Do you get just a little extra authority some other way?

(NO.)

The Constitution tells you how you may spend money

.Army.

Navy.

Post offices and Post roads.

Patent office.

Courts.

Piracy-punishment.

Counterfeiting-punishment.

Treason-punishment.

Naturalization laws.

Bankruptcy laws.

There's some stuff about the militia, too. No doubt that authorizes you to spend money on it.

Did I miss anything?

(YOU SURE DID.)

But the list is short.

Is your authority open-ended? Is it limitless?

(NOT REALLY.)

Is there a clause in the Constitution that if Congress REALLY wants something, or if the political situation REALLY requires it, that over-rides the whole rest of the Constitution?

(OH, DON'T I WISH!)

The chances are that we could pay off the national debt in a single generation if you would obey the Constitution and limit your spending to those items it authorizes.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona