Joe Doakes from Como Park sends me stuff via email.  LOTS of it.  I’ve offered to just let him be one of the staff writers here, but no, Joe prefers the email thing.  I’m fine with that.

But he sends me a ton of great stuff.  I usually keep to posting one of Joe’s things a day – because I’d hate to have it seen that my blog is largely written by someone who maimls it in.  But he writes a lot of great stuff.

So today I’m going to try to catch up, just a little bit, and clear out some of my Doakes backlog.

Anyway – Joe emails:

I put up a new screen saver yesterday to honor Congress re-opening the government.  It’s a photo of a guy kicking a can down the road.  A co-worker said he’d rather see them kick the can down the road than see the can crushed.

I asked if he thought adding half-a-trillion dollars debt every year was bad.  No, not if we need to do it to get over the hump.  In times of crisis it’s okay to borrow, as we did in WW II.  Keynes, you know.

But if we add trillions more debt, even at 1 or 2 percent interest, debt service is going to mount up.  We already can’t pay down the existing debt, in fact, we can’t even make our current payroll without borrowing.  Eventually, we won’t be able to service the debt at all, right?  True.

So is he willing to cut programs to balance the budget?  No, we’re at bare bones already.  Am I willing to raise taxes?  No, I’m Taxed Enough Already.  So what’s his plan?

He figures that if he can kick the can down the road another 30-40 years, something will come up that will make it all better.

But he has kids aged 2 and 4.  Isn’t he sticking them with the prospect of a mountain of un-payable debt or a collapsing world economy?  Yes, but there’s nothing that can be done about that.  They’ll just have to work it out.

Honestly, I was stunned.  I gave up and walked away.  He is intentionally condemning his own children to savagery after the collapse of civilization because he isn’t willing to stop giving Obama-phones to lay-abouts.

Joe Doakes

We’re surrounded by them.

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