It seems to me when we have a crisis, folks tend to think the government should do more, to solve it. When things are going good, the government should sit on its hands
It seems to me we haven't been out of a crisis in living memory. There are at least a dozen various crises running concurrently at any given time
But what I genuinely don't understand is anyone who imagines that we are not currently having a bit of a crisis....Prices are rising, shelves are bare, ports are jammed up, covid is raging. Nearly a million dead, help is hard to find, cash is short and Republicans and independents alike have decided that this is the time to sit on our hands. No crises here folks, move along, move along...
They vaguely want the federal government to do something, but they are not quite sure of what that something really is.
It's not my fecking job to know what the federal government should do. We elect and pay enormous sums of money to people who are supposed to know what to do. They in turn pay experts to figure out what the best course of action might be. Then they talk about it some and decide to do nothing.
But maybe my take on the current situation is wrong. Maybe Republicans aren't trying to drive prices up and the stock market down to improve their chances in 2022...maybe it's just my imagination.
