TNBNT, but as I was looking for interesting items, and finding none, I happened to see a clip of the president's ride for a trip to Ohio to push for his new stimulus plan.
And, what struck me was, that like like they say, in most situations it's the "little things" that count. Because, as I noted yesterday, the deficit's now almost 14 trillion (that's with a "t" not a "b") dollars. And it's rising rapidly every day, with no real hope for recovery in sight. Yet, our leader's on his way to make a speech in a helicopter that looks like it can carry about forty people, likely cost the taxpayers a few million to buy and probably burns fifty gallons of high octane fuel just to get off the ground.
So, why not just sit in his office and babble the same exact words he's going to waste in Ohio, from behind his desk? The cameras and crew are already there in the White House, and have nothing else to do, so why not save some taxpayer bucks?
Or, perhaps, I'm missing the "big" picture economically speaking. After all, there will be limousines on arrival, drivers, military and police personnel, escort vehicles, motorcycles, maybe even aerial surveillance of the venue. And so, I guess, there will be lot's of payroll too.
As I sit here and type, and re-read my own words I think I'm beginning to see how this whole economic thing really works. The presidents actually trickling funds and jobs down to a distressed few who certainly need economic help, and when the couple of million in taxpayer funds, covering the cost of the trip, are added to the $14,000,000,000,000 in national debt already owed it's hardly a blip.
And I guess the approach the presidents taking, spending blindly and piling debt upon debt, is something he learned from watching big businesses operate when they were in financial trouble. As I recall there were quite a few to learn from, Pacific Gas & Electric, Enron, Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications, WorldCom, Tyco Int'l., US Airways, Conesco, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Delta Airlines, Northeast Airlines, Delphi, Refco, Indy Mac Bancorp, SEM Group, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Tribune Group, General Growth Properties, Chrysler and GM, all of them bankrupt. The only difference in their failures was, they didn't have their hands directly inside the American taxpayers pockets to bail themselves out.
That's it for today folks.
Adios.
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