Contemplating my Staggering Stimulus Package

02/08/09.......and counting

We (Our Government) seem to be making "progress" in our (The Government) attempt to "save" our country (Us) from a "D" word (Depression). I think I understand a little more each day in what actions will create what results and therefore understand a lot more regarding why the Republicans are pushing for different actions than the Democrats as they want different results.

By using more money, or any money for "Tax Cuts"; i.e. reducing withholding tax, therefore giving You more "take-home pay" each week in your paycheck. Sounds great, huh?
It could be, or it could have an undesirable lack of stimulus to our economy.

Let's say they did reduce the withholding tax and you did get a little extra paper in your check.
Then you run down to Walmart to spend your hard earned money and buy a new flat screen (gotta have it!!). And of course you "charged it", knowing that you will have that same "few extra bucks" every time you get paid. Of course this keeps you in the same state of "check to check" living you have grown accustom to blaming the Government for.

Oh yeah, and it was made in Taiwan, whose economy was just stimulated, by you.

Flip the coin........

Let' say instead, they pumped more money into infrastructure, and created Government Jobs (Contracts). That would help slow the unemployment rates free fall, and those workers would in turn spend that money on everything; Food, clothes, rent, gas. Not just a flat screen. And not on a credit card. Hmmmm.

A bigger paycheck every week is great, unless you spend it without thinking.

Government jobs are great while they last but we sorely need some road and bridge work done.

So digesting all of that, I think my current view on it is that everything we do carries some risk.
Along with that risk comes responsibility and accountability.

Hello! I am talking about PERSONAL responsibility, and PERSONAL accountability.

We all want our actions to create the desired results. But we can't just sit back and hope for the best. We've settled for that for too long because we could always point a finger.

Whomever we point at, we always seem to forget that the majority of the time, we knowingly allowed actions by others, or inaction by ourselves, to negatively affect the desired result.

So maybe if the Republicans, the Democrats, or even better, All Americans took a minute to point in the mirror and accept their part in the American Quilt, we very well may become a great nation again.