The Neo-Citran Solution

So Congress has finally gone and done it. An $850 billion rescue/bailout/emergency bill passed today to try and stabilize the credit markets. But like Neo-Citran to a cold, this simply masks the underlying problem. The US is suffering from a bad case of Affluenza, and this is unlikely to cure their illness.

What is the underlying problem? Americans (and Canadians for that matter) spend more than they earn on a regular basis. They want all the newest toys their buddies have, and they want it now. Delayed gratification is no longer a virtue. So they live on credit, and would whine horrendously if that supply was suddenly cut off. So by greasing the wheels of the credit market by injecting $700 billion into it, what are the Americans actually accompishing? Nada. Zilch. Nothing. They are simply allowing their present system to continue, so Main Street doesn't have to realize there is a problem.

Here are some tough home truths for you:

1) Sometimes you don't deserve to have it.
2) Sometimes others do, who have lived longer and worked harder than you.
3) Buying stuff does not equate to buying happiness.

Americans (and Canadians, I might add yet again) need to take a week or so off and rest their credit chops on the couch and get over their Affluenza, not be enabled by their own government to work through the symptoms and soldier on into new levels of debt regardless.

Comments

Sarah Elaine said…
Affluenza. Love the pun.
Anonymous said…
I'd add to your list:

4. Sometime someone will have it, even if they don't deserve it and you do.

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