Thoughts About the Stimulus Package

Here we are, with a “new” stimulus package.  I am afraid that pumping non-existant money into an already failing system is just wrong.  We are all just so hung up on our stuff, that the thought of giving it up scares us silly.  The truth is when the fountain was overflowing, we all drank, and now that there is a crunch we ALL need to cut back to the bare essentials.  I find it amuzing, not really, that our government is cutting back funding for education while our local power company just paid $250,000 in a small town to put a new shelter in a local park.  Do they not get it? No, truly none of us gets it, because if we did we would just ride this economic crisis out allowing those who are living above their means to have to cut back.  Instead, what is happening is the big “power” company’s in this country are saying, not us, we shouldn’t have to cut back, however, all that they are really doing is putting the burden on us to carry them, and that just isn’t right.

It is a time for consequences and for those who have been living within their means, it should be okay.  Sure, I think that the government should help out those working folks who are facing unemployment because of this madness, however, everyone else and their bonuses and oversized homes, need to just take a good hard look at themselves and how they are living above their means, and they need to change.  As long as we continue to provide them with the money that they don’t have to feel the pinch, then we are just feeding their dilusions and that is what got us here in the first place.