"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed."

This quote is one often repeated, it is a rather old one. Well not this exact one, this one has been adapted, it comes from a Three Stooges episode. But the point is the same. And it is a great quote, no one should just give up if something doesn't work the first time, or the second, or third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh.....well you get the point. But there is also another quote, "everything in moderation." And I think that many of our politicians, and people in general have used the first quote too much, and the second one not enough.

I don't agree with the idea of the government bailing out companies and banks, and I don't agree with all these stimulus plans, but if they are really needed, and the first two don't seem to be working, then why pass a third?


The fist quote does mean keep trying, but I don't think it means try the same thing, the same way. The first quote means to keep trying, but you can't do the same thing repeatedly and hope for a different outcome, that doesn't really make sense.


I think the best way to fix the economy is to leave it alone and it will take care of itself. But if a stimulus plan is the way to go, well maybe it isn't becauese the first two didn't work so well.









Series Id: LNS14000000Seasonally AdjustedSeries title: (Seas) Unemployment RateLabor force status: Unemployment rateType of data: Percent or rateAge: 16 years and over Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1999 4.3 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0
2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.2 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.1 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.8
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.9
2008 4.9 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.5 5.6 5.8 6.2 6.2 6.6 6.8 7.2
2009 7.6 8.1 8.5 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.2 10.0


This shows that unemployment has gotten worse since teh begining of 2009, so I'm thinking that maybe we need to do something else besides make new stimulas plans and spend more money we don't have.

And I have a suggestion. I know this is a crazy idea, but maybe we should be more patient and leave the economy alone. There will always be ups and downs in the economy and the economy takes care of itself. But not many people want to be patient, we want it NOW! Which would be nice, I wish we could all wake up tomorrow and the economy be magically better, but that is not going to happen.


So if the last two didn't work then why is there reason to believe a third will? I don't know. Another stimulus plan is a dumb idea, our national debt is 12 trillion, and some change. Why are we even considering going into more debt? I don't understand the thinking, we are going to go deeper into debt to get out of debt? I really don't think that works. The government keeps printing off money like it grows on trees, which only makes the dollar so down more in value which doesn't help the economy any better. Please, please stop all this outragous spending! And please people email your representatives and tell them to stop. I have a link on my blog for the senate, house of representatives and the white house. Please tell them, because we can't really blame them for doing something we don't like if we don't tell them.








Sources


Unemployment Rate- http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=LNS14000000