Friday, August 27, 2010

Your House Is Burned: Who's At Fault Rebuilding It?

Okay, here's a heavy-handed analogy, followed by a brief quiz:

So, some guys burn a house down.

Then they walk away.

Another guy comes along, sees the charred remains and wants to rebuild. He tries to gather materials but is thwarted by the friends of the guys who burned the house down.

Having little choice, he tries to get money to buy materials from those same guys.

They take the money, give him some materials to rebuild, but when he tries to use them, they knock the materials out of his hands. He bends down to pick them up and they knock them out of his hands again.

Sometimes they trip him.

Sometimes they make up scary stories about him.

They force him to give time and energy towards things that make no sense instead of toward rebuilding the house they burned.

And they never really let him get started with the rebuilding of the house they burned down.

Question: is the whole thing the new guy's fault?

Answer: if you are a Republican, then yes.

The only action Republicans have taken in 2 years is inaction.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What you fail to understand is that sometimes inaction is better than action.

A key axiom of the progressive belief system is that doing anything (that they like) must intrinsically have positive effects. Thus, when (invariably) their dimwitted policies fail to work, their automatic solution is, "Let's do it again - only bigger!" under the assumption that they just must not have done enough. It's a mindset that's almost impossible to refute, because they're categorically unwilling to believe that their shiny policy idea might actually be a bad idea.

Any government can create a government job, because all it requires is taking money from taxpayers (or borrowing it) and spending it. So when Joe Biden defends all the jobs created by the simulus package, how may are non-government jobs?