Wormwood (#1439)

This goes out to my friend Geri Andrus, who reminded me of this term yesterday. A play within a play. Shakespeare brought this out in his famous stage play of Hamlet. I won't go into those details for they are evident if you read, hear or see the play. However the point he made back then is as relevant, like my friend Geri said yesterday, as it is today. In Washington DC, where our politicians go to become some absurd form of who they convinced us to vote for is where our current drama is playing out. I have no doubt this happens on the state level as well with all the shenanigans pulled by Republicans since the 2010 election happened, however the thrust of this post is aimed particularly at the national level. To clarify, what we have out in our country is a real lack of good work that provides decent, family raising incomes. Yet when you hear the Republican politicians in Washington talking, they tell us our big problem is deficits and debts and that only by cutting spending, will our country flourish. In other words, destroy much of what is left of good paying work in order to create good paying work, by the way, that seems like the nuclear option to me. Now, if that were the only option then maybe we all would need to consider their proposal, however it isn't the only option. The far less savage and much more enlightened and helpful process is to increase efficient spending, despite the current deficits and debt, in order to create more good paying jobs. In that way the good paying jobs will create greater revenue for the government through taxes while also creating more spending, which is the absolute true way to create jobs. Which way should we choose, austerity and hope that within a decade or so our economy will regrow, or build upon what we already have and supplement it's higher growth with proven methods? The drama in Washington is much too great and complicated to fully define in my little daily blog post here, but this is just one important example.