Quoting Einstein, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
That said, $700 BILLION... the lunacy (I can't think of another word for proposing such a ridiculous short term solution to a problem that was allowed to happen for so many years) that is happening in the economy right now, really is insane.
I am feeling rather smug, with that "I told you so" look on my face, though. Why?
For three years people have been telling me I was crazy for working so diligently for Merchants Barter Exchange - a new (launched eight years ago) company to help businesses trade for things at the same price as cash using the barter system - it even cost me my marriage, but I knew the economy was headed for a fall like this.
We are now being lauded as "futurists". Call us futurists if you want to, but for us the writing has been on the wall for many years: our economy is down the toilet and is not going to be solved by "bubble-gum politics". The only way to save the US economy is Merchants Barter Exchange.
The people "pulling the strings" now have their dirty little fingers on the flusher handle.
Barter, as an economic system, has outlived Kings and Queens, Empires, World Wars, Governments, recessions... It is the bedrock trampoline every economy hits when it crashes.
Thankfully Merchants Barter Exchange had the foresight to create their highly effective method of bartering 100%, same as cash, 100% of the time.
If there's anybody out there that really thinks $700 billion is really going to fix this problem, you probably also believed that the Titanic could have been saved with a large enough piece of bubble gum. Folks, please stop drinking the Kool Aid... and I tell you what, you can buy a lot of Kool Aid with $700 billion dollars.
Rant over, just had to get that little thing off my chest. Phew!
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