Was discussing the “Stimulus plans failures and the rising
unemployment rate" with a liberal group yesterday. One of them made an interesting analogy from his liberal
point of view:
“It's not that it "was Bush's fault, and then
the Congresses fault"....to fix the kind of mess Obama inherited from his
predecessor, he needs to spend money and years....it isn't something that you
can fix in a year or two, and even worse, without
spending anything....it's like you hire a guy to put tile on your floor, you
give him a 50% deposit check, he rips out your old tile and then decides to
leave without installing the new tiles he didn't even buy....the guy you're
going to hire after him is going to need new tile and thin set to fix your
floor, and it's going to take some time....I hope I expressed the principle
clearly enough, with my example/analogy.... :-)
And here is my response:
Let's go with your spot on analogy. If you are dumb enough to hire a sketchy contractor with very few references
(ie...the type who would take your money and not do the job), give him a
50% deposit, let him go to work and not oversee what he is doing,
you deserve the less than positive result because you are a dumbass!
But, let's apply your analogy to America today, the American people hired that
sketchy contractor with no references, then we gave him a Trillion Dollars
because unemployment would rise above 8% and we would all suffer tremendously if not for his "Stimulus plan". We
did and gave him full spending authority.
The Senate went and compounded the problem by giving the President
unrestrained spending ability. First,
holding off passing the 2009 budget until well after Obama entered office so
the budget could be tailored to him. They
then became completely derelict in their duty by not passing another budget for
more than 1100 days. Instead they passed
continuing spending resolutions favoring the administrations enormous spending
habits. Deficits soared! Yet, here we are, more than 3 years later, much deeper in debt, the unemployment rate
remains above the point he stated it would never reach and it is ticking
higher, not lower.
So, yes my myopic friend, your analogy is very appropriate. We, the American
people, do need to fire this inept contractor and replace him with one who has
both the experience and references. Would prefer it were not Romney, but he does have the experience and references and is
far and away a better choice than the inept contractor currently holding the
office.
Based on your own analogy, voting for Obama again would just prove how much of
a dumbass you really are, IMO.
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