Joe Doakes from Como Park sends me stuff via email. \u00a0LOTS of it. \u00a0I’ve offered to just let him be one of the staff writers here, but no, Joe prefers the email thing. \u00a0I’m fine with that.<\/p>\n
But he sends me a ton\u00a0<\/em>of great stuff. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0But he writes a lot of great stuff.<\/p>\n So today I’m going to try to catch up, just a little bit, and clear out some of my Doakes backlog.<\/p>\n Anyway – Joe emails:<\/p>\n I put up a new screen saver yesterday to honor Congress re-opening the government.\u00a0 It\u2019s a photo of a guy kicking a can down the road.\u00a0 A co-worker said he\u2019d rather see them kick the can down the road than see the can crushed.<\/p>\n I asked if he thought adding half-a-trillion dollars debt every year was bad.\u00a0 No, not if we need to do it to get over the hump.\u00a0 In times of crisis it\u2019s okay to borrow, as we did in WW II.\u00a0 Keynes, you know.<\/p>\n But if we add trillions more debt, even at 1 or 2 percent interest, debt service is going to mount up.\u00a0 We already can\u2019t pay down the existing debt, in fact, we can\u2019t even make our current payroll without borrowing.\u00a0 Eventually, we won\u2019t be able to service the debt at all, right?\u00a0 True.<\/p>\n So is he willing to cut programs to balance the budget?\u00a0 No, we\u2019re at bare bones already. \u00a0Am I willing to raise taxes?\u00a0 No, I\u2019m Taxed Enough Already.\u00a0 So what\u2019s his plan?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n But he has kids aged 2 and 4.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t he sticking them with the prospect of a mountain of un-payable debt or a collapsing world economy?\u00a0 Yes, but there\u2019s nothing that can be done about that.\u00a0 They\u2019ll just have to work it out.<\/p>\n Honestly, I was stunned.\u00a0 I gave up and walked away.\u00a0 He is intentionally condemning his own children to savagery after the collapse of civilization because he isn\u2019t willing to stop giving Obama-phones to lay-abouts.<\/p>\n Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We’re surrounded by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joe Doakes from Como Park sends me stuff via email. \u00a0LOTS of it. \u00a0I’ve offered to just let him be one of the staff writers here, but no, Joe prefers the email thing. \u00a0I’m fine with that. But he sends me a ton\u00a0of great stuff. \u00a0I usually keep to posting one of Joe’s things a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39116,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39110\/revisions\/39116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}