In this economy, patience is no virtue
The AP reports that president Obama is asking us for patience and to give enough time for the economic stimulus to work. The economy is still in the midst of a deep recession but the President is just asking for time, and patience.
That advice will fall on the deaf ears of those who have lost their jobs or who are struggling to make ends meet in this recession. The advice will also be unheeded as more and more companies are laying workers off or going out of business. Patience is not a virtue for those people. Expedience is.
It’s funny, how patience and sound judgment were not required when the bill was passed in the first place. No, it was shoved down our throats and crammed up our asses at such a speed that has not been seen since the days of yore when FDR was passing plan after plan after plan. Patience was not required when we were examining the bill and finding that it was not an economic stimulus bill at all, but a special interest stimulus bill. We were told that everything was going to come to a halt if this did not pass. We were also told that we were going to see some results within six months.
Photo ops with the Vice President aren’t going to cut it either. Neither will the administration’s reports of it created (or saved) 150,000 jobs. 150k jobs is nothing compared to the 6.9 million jobs that have been lost. So far the hundreds of billions of dollars spent has only saved (or created) 150,000 jobs. At this pace Obama will be in his 8th year touting how he created (or saved) 1.2 million jobs. But in the meantime we will have lost 15-20 million jobs. But really we should be ashamed of ourselves. He said results, not meaningful results.
Besides they “misread” the economy remember? Maybe that was because Mr. Obama was too busy placing lobbyists in his administration after he said he wouldn’t. Maybe it was because he was too busy going on talk shows and campaigning for president after he already was inaugurated. Maybe it was because this economic stimulus was really not a recovery and reinvestment act, it was the Recovery (of tyranny) and Reinvestment (of Special Interest and of course the buying of votes) Act. Maybe they misread the economy because they don’t know the FIRST thing about economics and how the private sector works. Or maybe they do and this is just a power grab.
But now we are told to wait. We are told to wait and have patience when it was this congress and president that did not exude those virtues when it suited them. We are told to give it time when this government told us we had no time left and the sky was falling. We were told this was financial Armageddon! So the bill passed and it has had little to no impact on anything. You see? The virtue of patience is to fall on us, not them. The burden of this recession will fall on us as well. They will consolidate their power and we will lose ours. We are to serve them. They are to rule over us. They hold the power and we are holding the check… again! Shame on us again. We believed politicians.
The truth of the matter is, that with any semi-free market, the economy will recover. In some way it will get back on its feet again because that’s the way it is, we’re Americans. We will find a way to make this work. But the dirty secret is that this economy would have recovered without this stimulus bill anyway. That’s why we’re being told to wait. We will be told to have patience and to wait until the ecnomy naturally recovers from the recession. That means that companies will become more efficient and find ways to make money on their own. When that happens our government will hold up the stimulus package as a great success. And we will be shamed again because we will believe it.
America as we think it exists no longer exists. We are too dependent on the government and too stupid to realize it. We will believe this government when they tell us they did something good when in fact they probably did nothing but consolidate their own power by duping the masses.
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