Get Off the Oxygen Tube

Ben Stein is a very funny man - and a wise one, too.  All of us - and our government - should heed his counsel.

The sad truth is that the economy is still extremely ill. The recovery we were all waiting for has not started in any meaningful way.

What is President Obama doing about it? Perhaps too much. And, possibly, his efforts are too diffuse. When I think about the economy I think about a plump man who has just been hit by a truck while crossing a street and is in severely critical condition with internal bleeding. Instead of just stabilizing his hemorrhaging, the doctor decides that while the patient is unconscious, he might as well also do a face lift, some coronary bypasses and a stomach-stapling to keep him from gaining weight while he is recovering (if he does recover). After all, a crisis is not to be wasted.

The problem is that all these ambitious operations create too much of a burden for the human body to bear.

Read the whole thing.  And then ask your representatives to stop standing on the oxygen.

Comments

[jammen]

Peg, I would have read Ben Stein's article, but I couldn't get over that idiotic movie he made preaching about the evils of evolution and truth of creationism.

Just as the Flat Earth Society may have valuable political views to espouse, no intelligent person can ever take them seriously.

[Peg]

Jammen - we have politicians who are Catholics, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, etc. Anything that some of them believe that you might find "idiotic"?

Too bad you cannot lower yourself to read something sensible that has utterly no relation to the topics you raised. Someone can be brilliant in one arena - and out of touch in another.