I think the most shocking thing about the 700 billion handout is how it was started. The United States has over 300,000,000 people, with the largest economy in the world. The financial debacle has been brewing for decades and probably a dozen administrations. Tens of millions of people are directly involved with it. How did the Bush administration react? With a THREE PAGE plan!!!! Three Pages. The manual to my TOASTER is longer than that. It takes more than three pages to describe how a toaster works, but that is all that it takes TO FIX THE LARGEST ECONOMY OF THE WORLD. The ineptitude of this administration is amazing. A third grade book report on Charlotte’s Web is probably about 3 pages. I am not surprised at all that it is over 400 pages. You know, something that an adult could right.
Either way, I think the plan is stupid and flawed. What we really need is New New Deal. Something that fixes our infrastructure, not swaps one piece of paper for another. You can’t drive on paper bridges, you can’t teach kids inside of a figure in a database. You can’t rebuild levies with stock swaps. We need to roll up our sleeves and actually start making things again. That is how you really fix this country.
Sadly, I am not hearing this from either candidate. All I hear is Change. Change to what? We are dealing with a pivotal point in American history, and we are talking about gay marriage and hockey moms. The best qualified people, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden sadly do not have the presidential nomination. We have a motivational speaker and grandpa running for president. It is a hard choice, and frankly, I think they both suck.
Enough ranting for now. Later today we are going to visit the Heston Steam Museum for the first time with Glenn. I haven’t been there in 20 years, probably, and Tiffany and Glenn have never seen a steam train. I hope the weather holds out.