Spending Our Way To Prosperity

According to Time, we are now looking at FDR redux. Supposedly, President Obama will now lead our country to a new era of success and prosperity. Rather high expectations if you ask me.

Yet it reflects the standard liberal myth that the government is the primary catalyst for the economy. If the government spends enough money, it will jump-start a sluggish economy back on the road to prosperity for all.

Sadly, too many people believe or rather buy into this myth.

What they fail to realize is that the government is a huge non-profit enterprise that produces nothing of value in goods and services.

It is, for all intents and purposes, just a giantic charity that has been given the right to siphon money from the pockets of hard-working Americans to support its free-spending habits.

Imagine for a moment any other charity with this ability: the Red Cross or Make A Wish or Juvenile Diabetes or American Cancer Society. All of these and many more are certainly worthy charities.

Yet they are supported by free will donations from individuals and companies. They depend, as it were, on the kindness of strangers.

Not so the government. It has the right to take from every working American long before you see the first dime of the money you worked so hard to earn.

Before you even see your paycheck, the government has snatched its hefty cut, leaving you to subsist on the meager remains.

No other charity or non-profit organization in the world operates like that.

And no other one spends as wildly and with reckless abandon as does the government. So much so that we have topped the TRILLION mark for a deficit for the first time in history.

Last year Congress voted to spend trillions of your dollars ... money you worked hard to provide for you and your families' food, shelter and clothing. Much of it was given away to programs that show little if any value or return on investment.

That giant sucking sound you hear is the money being flushed down a toilet... which is basically what happens to 90% of our tax dollars.

Yesterday, President Obama said we shouldn't ask how big government is but whether or not it works.

That's all fine, well and good. As long as when the answer comes back that no it isn't working, they do something to fix it.

The first 100 days have started.

What will be fixed? What will be left alone? How much more money will be wasted before this waste is stopped?