My weirdo, antimaterialistic philosophy isn't likely to become popular any time soon and that's just as well as I make my living selling mostly new stuff and so does everybody else, really.
As things get tighter and tighter around here I've been thinking about the economy and Andy and I were talking about it the other day. What we don't really understand, having tried really hard for the last decade to borrow as little as possible, is that instead of revving up the economy at the production level the government seems intent on revving it up at the credit level. Isn't that kind of like pushing a string from one end and expecting it to move at the other?
I know I'm totally unqualified to talk about economic issues but that's the beauty of blogging. I can spout my half baked ideas and my readers can correct them. Wouldn't it be better to spend money on things like the auto industry and the aircraft industry? It seems like producing things would create jobs and jobs would put money in people's pockets that would then make it to the banks that would then think about loaning money and then people would be able to buy houses and cars. It seems like we ought to pull that string from the other end rather than push it from this one. I could be wrong though.
1 comments:
I'm not an expert either, but credit cards aren't the answer for sure.
The auto industry. Poorly made vehicles in some cases and the union is corrupt. Yes, there are jobs, but that union needs an major overhaul.
Have a terrific day Marilyn. :)
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