The Reel Feel - An Analogy For Those Concerned About Health Care Reform Raising The Deficit
This is the prime example of the corporate media. Instead of trying to inform the public about the history of dealing with deficits, they continue the echo chamber of "This is going to be too much" or "The deficit is getting bigger and bigger and bigger".
It is understandable for anyone to be concerned about debt and ask, "How are we going to pay for this?" It's a question that is definitely understandable from any person with rational sense.
But I hope that question is coming from those who asked the same interrogative sense about tax cuts, the war in Iraq, and a few other characteristics that I am sure Professor Stiglitz talked about today. Because it would seem hypocritical if it didn't.
Nevertheless, whether they were always budget conscience before or not, the narrative of "We don't have this money" or "We can't spend this much on health care because it will automatically exacerbate our deficit even further" is getting more rotation than all those Dos Equis commercials. It has exploded, and no one has definitively given an answer to combat and, for all purposes, defeat this now universal feeling. That NBC/Wall Street poll is here to stay, and that 58% number will be forced down everyone's throats, whether you like or not.
So, as a suggestion to the augmenting concerns over real health care reform (Senator Conrad's and Tom Daschle's love of "co-op" be damned to the highest power), here is an analogy that I came across a while ago, and thought about all day today.
Loans. Yes, loans.
if it wasn't for loans, a lot of us in this nation, and maybe those reading abroad, wouldn't be able to be successful or have a chance to succeed.
For this who still may not know, I graduated college just last month. I needed loans to get through B.U. (and sure as hell, with how B.U. cost, even kids with folks well into the six figure salaries had to as well). Yet, those loans provided me with something I needed: a college that would give me the best chance to be really successful or be a strong part of my resume for a job (in journalism only, not the outside stuff) that I want and need.
I didn't have the money to pay, but I needed to do it.
I know that experience is definitely the case for some of you reading this, whether it was a college loan, a mortgage loan (before those CDS casino like deals really messed that up) or any time of loan, you needed that experience because you needed that loan.
And you would think about playing that loan back after you reaped the benefits of that loan (hopefully).
Well, that analogy can hopefully be implemented from now on in regards to fighting the deficit warriors, who I guarantee will use this to haunt the emergence of a second stimulus package or a cap and trade bill if they are able to succeed in preventing meaning health care reform.
Let's remember our history here, because most in our media won't do it for you, either because they don't have the knowledge to do it, their producers don't, and/or their higher ups tell them not to (and they follow of course): Roosevelt dealt with the deficit warriors, succumbed to them in 1937, and saw the harm of making that move as the economy dipped before he returned to spending.
Spending, responsible spending, is needed for meaning health care reform. I don't need to tell you how much we need that meaningful health care reform. We all know that.
We need it just like we need loans in life. And if we are responsible and able enough, with the right facilitation, we will pay it back and reap the benefits of taking a chance that we have to take.
It is understandable for anyone to be concerned about debt and ask, "How are we going to pay for this?" It's a question that is definitely understandable from any person with rational sense.
But I hope that question is coming from those who asked the same interrogative sense about tax cuts, the war in Iraq, and a few other characteristics that I am sure Professor Stiglitz talked about today. Because it would seem hypocritical if it didn't.
Nevertheless, whether they were always budget conscience before or not, the narrative of "We don't have this money" or "We can't spend this much on health care because it will automatically exacerbate our deficit even further" is getting more rotation than all those Dos Equis commercials. It has exploded, and no one has definitively given an answer to combat and, for all purposes, defeat this now universal feeling. That NBC/Wall Street poll is here to stay, and that 58% number will be forced down everyone's throats, whether you like or not.
So, as a suggestion to the augmenting concerns over real health care reform (Senator Conrad's and Tom Daschle's love of "co-op" be damned to the highest power), here is an analogy that I came across a while ago, and thought about all day today.
Loans. Yes, loans.
if it wasn't for loans, a lot of us in this nation, and maybe those reading abroad, wouldn't be able to be successful or have a chance to succeed.
For this who still may not know, I graduated college just last month. I needed loans to get through B.U. (and sure as hell, with how B.U. cost, even kids with folks well into the six figure salaries had to as well). Yet, those loans provided me with something I needed: a college that would give me the best chance to be really successful or be a strong part of my resume for a job (in journalism only, not the outside stuff) that I want and need.
I didn't have the money to pay, but I needed to do it.
I know that experience is definitely the case for some of you reading this, whether it was a college loan, a mortgage loan (before those CDS casino like deals really messed that up) or any time of loan, you needed that experience because you needed that loan.
And you would think about playing that loan back after you reaped the benefits of that loan (hopefully).
Well, that analogy can hopefully be implemented from now on in regards to fighting the deficit warriors, who I guarantee will use this to haunt the emergence of a second stimulus package or a cap and trade bill if they are able to succeed in preventing meaning health care reform.
Let's remember our history here, because most in our media won't do it for you, either because they don't have the knowledge to do it, their producers don't, and/or their higher ups tell them not to (and they follow of course): Roosevelt dealt with the deficit warriors, succumbed to them in 1937, and saw the harm of making that move as the economy dipped before he returned to spending.
Spending, responsible spending, is needed for meaning health care reform. I don't need to tell you how much we need that meaningful health care reform. We all know that.
We need it just like we need loans in life. And if we are responsible and able enough, with the right facilitation, we will pay it back and reap the benefits of taking a chance that we have to take.
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