Originally Posted by
Ted Menelly
Not taking sides here, but Jerry, someone will be paying for all that money given for allowances and kick backs.
I think it will be the rest of the Americans or should I say US citizens.
Ted,
I am aware of that, but if you look and history and (the critical part) learn from history, you will see and understand that without the US government handing out handouts at the last depression, we may not be here as we know it today, the US may not have survived as we have known it.
Taking that lesson from history, when the going gets tough you do not stop spending, you start spending.
When the government BUYS THINGS ... SOMEONE has to MAKE THEM AND SELL THEM ... and then slowly starts the cycle of rebuilding the economy.
I realize that is a simplistic description of it, but some here will not even be able to grasp that.