How to make Congress want to save our money

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Pay them lots more

Letter to the editor;

A reader proposes we pay our Beloved Leaders only what they are worth. It would save a fortune, he said, because most of them are worth very little.

However, I propose to pay them all much more -- and save a thousand times as much.

You ask, “How could you possibly save money by throwing it at politicians?”

Here’s how: Pay the President, the Vice President, the Cabinet members, the Justices of the Supreme Court and all the Congresscritters a million dollars a year each. They would have to pay their own staff, office rent, retirement, limousines, stationary and stamps out of this million.

(Probably they would each run an office the size of a motel room, with a staff of one. See, they would want to take home as much of that lovely money as possible rather than waste it on riotous DC living.)

AND – they would be paid at the end of each fiscal year – out of whatever is left in the Treasury.

See, if they spend us into a deficit, there would be nothing left in the Treasury to pay them. They wouldn't get that million. They wouldn't get anything at all. This would be a very powerful personal motivation in the direction of fiscal sanity.

They would be, as it were, spending their own money.

They would all catch on to this in about three seconds.

We might never see another deficit or another war.

That's how.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona

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