Walter Williams on the “Stimulus Ribbate”
It’s like taking a bucket of water from the deep end of a pool and dumping it into the shallow end. Funny thing—the water in the shallow end doesn’t get any deeper.
Walter Williams – Stimulus Package Nonsense
Hit the link and read the whole thing.
Found at the SayAnything blog
Only it’s not quite accurate.
It’s like taking a bucket of water from the deep end and, after inefficiently conveying it to the shallow end, slopping a good 1/4 of the contents of the bucket into the dirt during the trip, pouring the remnants back into the shallow end.
You may FEEL like your accomplishing something, and to an outside observer it may APPEAR that you’re merely accomplishing nothing; but in reality, with every trip, the pool has less and less water until, eventually, there’s not even enough left to fill the bucket.
His analogy may be a better sound bite, but mine’s more accurate…and more terrifying.
Oh…and the government’s proposed solution? Get a bigger bucket.
Then again our entire ecosystem runs off of water that evaporates from the oceans, condenses in clouds, and precipitates onto farmland, leaches into streams and eventually makes it’s way back to the ocean.
Moving water around doesn’t change the amount of water, it facilitates OTHER things. Focusing on the water makes the entire process seem futile.
Thinking that moving money from Government BACK into private hands is the same is like ignoring what happens to the water when it rains down and causes plants to grow.
“Money is like manure, it’s pretty much worthless unless it is spread around encouraging young things to grow.” Ms. Dolly Levi in “Hello Dolly!”