03-15-2021, 10:42 AM
(03-15-2021, 09:38 AM)David Horn Wrote: I'm in a bit of a quandary. When we spike the economy, and that's underway as we post, how do we also assure that all that public money doesn't become instant private wealth? The alternative is to do nothing, which is guaranteed to be a disaster (been there, done that in 2009). Building new infrastructure poses similar issues. In other words, have we allowed wealth aggregation to go on for too long to contain it? I hope not, but can't be sure.
It doesn't help that people have been aligned against each other, and seem destined to remain misaligned for the foreseeable future. It's impossible to do the hard things if we disagree on what they are and how to solve them. To be frank, all my items concern me, but #5 the most, because I haven't a clue on how to address it.
The economy is a trial and error problem with a low number of repetitions. in Obama's time, we did too little. This is too much. Is it possible that we did too much? Certainly.
Infrastructure? Wealth division? Can we contain it? I suspect enough will be done to keep us afloat. I expect enough will be spent to restart the economy, and taxing the rich will be recognized as inevitable. But it won't go beyond that. Truly attacking it will be left for another time.
Agreed, the division is hard to address. The Democrats can prove government could serve the people. The desire to hurt minorities by hurting the working poor has hurt enough people to change the basics. But it is kind of hard to go behind the obvious, wait on the awakening, and hope for the best?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.