stimulus money

I've used this analogy so many times in conversation now, I decided it was time to get it down on "paper", virtual or not.

Why is it necessary to spend so much money on stimulus when we are already so much in debt? Well, let's think of this this way. For the past 8 years, your sister's husband has been snorting cocaine, every cent they earned went up his nose. He stole from everyone in the family, wiped out their savings, borrowed against their house and then burned it down for the insurance money.

Your sister finally comes to her senses and leaves the guy, but she is now destitute, with no home, no clothes, no insurance, no savings and so far in debt that she has no chance of ever getting out of it. But you love her, and she wants to go back to school to become a nurse. She has passed all the tests, but that was before she lost everyting.

Would you take your sister in? Loan her the money for school? Help her feed and clothe her children? Even if it meant you had to borrow to do it, knowing she wants to pay you back once she is back on her feet? Me, I'll spend whatever it took to help make her whole again.

Well, that's what is going on in this country right now. The house and family of America has been utterly destroyed in the past eight years. Now we have to spend MORE money in order to help heal her. And likely it will still take more before it is all over.

I do have the confidence that it will work. Investing in wind and solar power will help cure our addiction to oil. As will updating our government buildings to be more energy efficient. We will bring more intelligence to the table to help grow the future of America if we improve our education system. There are a few things that are planned that I disagree with, but I'm sure that's true of everyone.

Let's give this time to work. We gave the Bush Administration 8 years to destroy us. How about we give the Obama Administration more than two months to repair everything, and we give him the tools he needs to do it.