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Edited on Thu Oct-30-08 08:32 AM by Atman
That's the morning talking head theme. But it got me thinking...why not? If we were able to pull eleventy-brazillion dollars out of our collective ass (actually, China's ass) just to give it to Bush and Paulson and their buddies, why can't Barack say that it's also vital to our survival and the greater good of the country to borrow another eleventy-brazillion for infrastructure projects and alternative energy research and other jobs-producing measures? I mean, seriously, which will actually do more to HELP "real" Americans?
At this point, the amount of money is so obscenely large as to be almost abstract. It's simply too much, too big a stack of bills, to even comprehend. Trillions of dollars. It will take trillions of years to ever pay it back to anyone. China, the U.S., none of these nations will even be around as we know it, and that debt will still be on the books. For-fucking-ever.
So WTF...borrow a few hundred billion more, bring back the marginal tax rates of the Clinton (and even Kennedy) era to offset part of it, get people working. It's amazing what happens next...when people are working (and getting paid a fair wage), they go out and buy fancy new fridges and add a deck to the house and spend their money, exactly the same way the rich people did when Bush gave them the keys to the treasury. Except, instead of taking money from their right pocket and putting in their left pocket, working Americans, put it into Joe The Plumber's pocket, the hardware store's pocket, the appliance store's pocket.
And it goes from all those pockets, to the next pockets, and all these people are able to buy the stuff the big fat-ass corporate greed-mongers produce. We get new roads, new schools (or at least, updated and maintained), and they get profits and divends. Everyone wins.
Unlike the way it is now, where only the very rich realize any benefit, and don't feel the slightest bit of pain because they're the ones who took all the money in the first place.
Whew.
Rant off.
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