Saturday, April 10, 2010
You can't help but wonder the year hasn't made people panic and riot in
the streets. I have people talking "Meh, Obamacare is sink America and
blah, blah, blah!!!" Or the talk of, "Oh the economic bailout is so
horrible and we're all being part of China." Meanwhile, I think of one
thing.
This is the sound of apathy... of inactive whining... of grumbling without really giving thought to what could have been.
It
doesn't take an expert to put two and two together to see things aren't
bad as people perceive them to be. Yes, the long term effects are
questionable, but like all things of such big nature, only the history
books and historians will judge the effects. We are by nature,
creatures of looking for an easy way out. No matter what we say about,
"Oh think of the future generations.", a lot of us are plain selfish,
and why not for the name of economic stability and paying the bills.
Whatever
you want to think President Obama and his policies, like any president I
have my agreements and disagreements with them, his economic polices
coupled with President Bush's actions in late 2008 have stopped
potentially massive bleeding. People don't seem to understand the being
the world's reserve currency (one of a few e.g Euro, Yen, Pound), the
only currency worth of purchasing oil, and actually a few countries have
adapted the dollar into the primer currency of their country, that the
US dollar is a global currency. Logically, our dollars have to be
printed daily, not only to feed our need for the medium of exchange, but
for a majority of the world needs our dollars.
People scream or
complain of "Geez, we're going into debt and printing a lot of
dollars." I don't the amount of dollars that are circulating around in
each country, but there has to a crapload of it moving about. Sure,
debt management isn't one of America's fortes, but it seems that a
nation can spend in one of two areas. Those two areas of general
spending is domestic spending or foreign spending.
I can't seem
to mention the huge cost of waging war that we outspent both countries
net worth easily. People seem to lose focus that priority one of
spending American dollars is spending it here at home for improving and
maintaining what we have. Foreign spending is also good, just not in
large amounts. Also seemingly forgotten is the economics of waging war
is usually short-term and we benefit from something. Only in the caves
people would stand behind the whole Iraq war on, "Oh we're kicking out a
bad man.", which has been long proven to be about oil. Plus, Persian
Gulf War 1991 proved that premise of basing 2003 Iraq War on it being
largely false in the first place.
Obama isn't some crazy man,
he's a shrewd, strategic planner. The economy has hit bottom and isn't
sinking lower, even with all the crazy debt piling up. It's not
unthinkable that his cabinet is pulling the right strings. I know I use
to think the premise of thinking, "AH, LET IT FAIL!!!" No longer,
failing companies I know is the true capitalist thinking, but it's
really bad when you think about it because they got so big that it
wouldn't just affect them but chain reaction beyond themselves.
Health
insurance... it was needed. People are sometimes like a bunch of
lemmings and can't figure out why when you have a sudden emergency and
don't have insurance, you get fully billed. Yes, I've continued to say
that it isn't perfect and I don't when any government legislation has
been perfect.
We should be encouraged and actually forced to buy
"catastrophic" coverage, but only that. It just sounds like buying
minimum coverage for a car, but just for yourself. You're covering
yourself from harm and paying up the butt for medical bills. Beyond
catastrophic coverage, you can add on to build custom coverage with
private companies or with *chuckles* Medicaid or Medicare. We all know
how bad that system is... and that's that.
Think about it... relative good for the new year I think.
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