Save though spending??!!

Climbing up on my soapbox--

This is such an asinine idea. I hate ads that say in huge letters "SAVE MONEY".... then in the fine print... "save five dollars when you spend $50." It makes me sick. I am tired of seeing ads like these... does this really bring people into stores to save money by spending it? I don't understand this logic. Saving money means that it is in the bank, a college account, under the mattress, or in retirement portfolio. It doesn't mean that I went to Target to save $5 by spending $50- that is a loss of $45 in my book.

Obama's proposal for for a second economic bailout for the country is exactly the same faulty logic in my understanding. We are going to borrow money from the government, a government that is hugely and totally in debt, and give it into government programs to stimulate the economy. Not a couple of million or even a billion NO A TRILLION DOLLARS. How can this possibly work??? How can a government that is in debt offer a trillion dollars to the people of America? And then there is the way it is going to be offered to "bailout" the economy. According to a news report by Philip Elliot, "President Barack Obama took to the airwaves Saturday to promote his economic aid plan in what's-it-mean-to-me terms: thousands of better schools, lower electricity bills, health coverage for millions who lose insurance."

This will not help the average American. I don't want medical insurance that is mandated by the government. I don't want that amount of red tape just to go to the doctor. I don't want to have to rely on the government to send my children to college or lower my electricity bills. That is not the responsibility of the government in my eyes. If I want to lower my electricity bills I will turn off the lights, TVs, air conditioners, and light a few candles.

I respect what House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said, ""We cannot borrow and spend our way back to prosperity,"

OK- I'll get off my soapbox now! :)