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Lifeblood

“The borrower is servant to the lender.” Proverbs 22:7

Our President introduced a new “catch phrase” into the vernacular of American economic malaise as he said, ”You see, the flow of credit is the lifeblood of our economy.”

Pardon me Mr. President, but credit is far from being the “lifeblood” of our economy. Unfortunately, the media has taken to this as the phrase of the hour. However, this mantra is not true and if followed will lead to dire consequences for our economy.

Take a moment to digest this fact, the economic problems arose because of overleveraging or in terms we can all regurgitate…too much debt…to much “flow of credit”!

We are so overleveraged that even our “representative” government is operating on an annual budget deficit, meaning that we are borrowing money just to exist…to pay for all of our politicians’ promises!

We’ve been duped into believing that our economic security rests upon our ability to borrow?! Fortunately, today you can know that it most certainly does not!

While credit flow may help speed up some commercial processes, it is not the guarantor of commerce in and of itself. Commerce existed prior to credit and will continue to exist long afterward.

How do we create more commerce? Investment! Now, don’t misunderstand, I’m not only talking about the Wall St.-type investing that contributed to this econo-mess. We must focus on where we are…how can I invest myself in my own sphere of influence.

We are designed with a character that includes ingenuity, imagination, diligence, determination, intelligence, and creativity. Unique as we are made, we each can and must invest ourselves to fix this mess. Big brother can’t and won’t!

Do not let the politics of the day undermine your self worth. You will overcome! You will survive! No matter what comes you cannot forget who you really are…You are an American! You are a contributing part of what continues to make this nation the greatest in the world.

You are the lifeblood of the economy! You, not “the flow of credit”, are what makes America exist. Don’t you ever forget it!

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Finger Pointing

 

Has anyone noticed the theme of the D.C. bailout talks? Come on, surely you’ve heard it several times by now.

Here is my paraphrase: “We don’t have time to point fingers, we just need to get this done to save America!”

Unfortunately, while time is essential at this juncture, we MUST point fingers. Why? We must determine what part of the economic structure is responsible so that we don’t pour $700 billion into a black hole.

If you have a hole in the bucket, pouring more water into it will not fix the leak! You’ve got to fix the leak before it will hold water. What our Congress is calling us to do is pour more water into a broken bucket rather than fixing the hole. I mean, really…use more debt to fix a debt problem?!

I’m sorry, that just flies in the face of good common sense, much less good economic policy. We must take the time to find the hole and fix it. Otherwise, we stand to loose all of our water. We don’t have an unlimited supply of money, matter-of-factly, we don’t even have the money we now believe we have anyway. Just a bunch of worthless paper!
Paper that will become even more worthless when this bailout passes.
 
Personally, I believe the financial institutions being bailed out should shoulder the responsibility. I mean, honestly, if they had made good on these risky investments do you really think they would be bailing us out? I didn’t think so. Why should we bail them out? Let them pay a fee of some sort to a mutual account of some sort to bail each other out. That process is already underway, as I write the headlines are reporting that JPMorgan just purchased Washington Mutual.
Some will fall, some will stand, all will change!

While those institutions allow the illness to work its way through and out of the system, the government can use taxpayer money to insure the deposits of middle class people in the institutions that fail. I found that concept in a Todd Harrison article on http://www.minyanville.com and I want to give him full credit for it. His idea seems to make a lot more sense than to give a $700 billion blank check with no strings attached to the Fed.

Many Americans don’t realize that this bailout gives the Fed unreviewable authority (by court or by Congress) to spend this taxpayer money.

That’s un-Constitutional and un-American!
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