Once again, our bumbling president and his cohorts have proved they know nothing about our economy or how to fix it. To top it off, this crew single-handedly brought about a worldwide recession. What a legacy! Their ineptness and hindsight saw fit to bail out our financial institutions and the auto industry with billions of hard-earned tax dollars with little or no constraints—as if this would help poor Joe Public, who has lost everything: his job, his retirement, and his home.
   Unless the little guy has money to spend on basic items like food, medicine, homes, clothes, etc., there is no way in hell our economy can improve. Banks now have money to loan and automakers can continue to make expensive gas-guzzling cars, but who can buy a home or car if no one has any money to pay for them?
   All 50 states are in financial trouble because of the economy and imposed federal mandates. If our government really gives a damn about the plight of its people and the health of the states, it would bail them out with federal aid to fund food stamps, medical care, state and local infrastructure projects, and aid to education. This would create jobs and put money into the pockets of workers, whose spending of those dollars would bring about an end of this recession. But this simplistic approach to our problems will undoubtedly be overlooked in favor of a more complex and useless one.
   Our government’s leaders will continue to do everything ass-backwards. Just follow the money trail if you don’t believe this.
This article appears in Jan 8-15, 2009.