Pandemic of Stupidity

It’s becoming more and more obvious to me that the real pandemic we are fighting is one of stupidity.  Fear and anger have dominated our politics for so long that reason has disappeared.   We have many pundits claiming it’s safe to open our economy up without any facts to back it up.  Until we have tested virtually everyone, every two weeks or so, we won’t know where we are at with covid 19.  There are two types of people we have to deal with:  one dreams improvements and builds from them, the other destroys what others have built and likes to tear others dreams to shreds.  Real leaders take the blame for mistakes and fixes them, tells the truth, listens to all sides, and gives credit to subordinates for the good things happening.   If we listened to our intellect instead of our fears we might be able to determine the real role of government and forget about the words socialism and capitalism that mean something different to everyone you talk to.

Time to try "Bubble Up"economics

Now that the US has approximately half of its population without jobs, (children, students, retirees, disabled and unemployed) it might be time to change our economy’s focus from jobs to incomes.  The focus on jobs gives discretion for spending two trillion of our aid tax dollars to business owners and executives under the “trickle down” theory.  By spending only one trillion dollars we could eliminate hunger by giving each resident with a Social Security number a debit card for $300 a month.  It could be spent only on food produced in the United States, and on one day each month it would be brought back to the $300 amount.  If it wasn’t spent it couldn’t be accumulated.  This would eliminate hunger, free up rent and mortgage money, benefit our farmers, and bubble up to our business owners.