It seems to me that one way to make sure the economy is always running is if regular people, regular Americans, had the opportunity to spend their money on truly useless shit that they don’t really need. As seen on tv kind of products. $10 pieces of plastic that will de-shell a hard boil egg for you. Diamond shaped ice makers. A 55″ 3D hdtv instead of the 46″. This is what America has always run on – excessive, unnecessary consumer spending.
One way to help would be for the government to guarantee basic health care for the entire population. I don’t have any studies on hand with me or anything, but judging by my own personal experiences and you know common fucking sense that says people should help other people out, there’s a lot of money I’m paying towards medical and dental care that i could rather be spending buying other shit. Shit that someone somewhere would have to manufacture. Then someone else would have to package it in a nice box that someone else produced. They’ll give it to someone to take it to the shipping company where someone else would stamp the box. It would then be carried off to the cargo of a plane and be flown over to the us. Someone in Cali would load it off the plane and put it in a truck, and the driver would make their way to NYC. They’d drop it off at a facility in the city for it to be processed, and it would work its way through several people and eventually end up with the mailman, who would bring it over to my house. now, I won’t be at my house because I work during the weekdays, so then I’d have to go over to the local post office on Saturday, where someone behind a bulletproof booth will actually locate my package and hand it over to me. And then I can easily make hard boil eggs in the morning. And it’ll be so easy to quickly eat a hard boil egg that I’ll double my egg consumption, creating even more jobs. Just this one order helps sustains hundreds of jobs that go away when people stop spending money on frivolous bullshit. And the reason I can buy this is because I get to take home more money because I don’t have to worry about costly health expenditures. The tax dollars I’m already paying can cover it, because overall government spending on health care would go down. And hell, if I can pay Netflix $20 a month to store for them the same three dvds month after month, I can pay the government a few couple hundred dollars more a year for the guarantee that I do not have to worry about health case costs. For the guarantee that everyone around me is healthy and I won’t be as likely to get sick. For the mental and physical security and reduced stress.
And instead of using all my take home money to pay bills because i’m debt cos i got sick, I can spend the money buying stuff that creates hundreds of jobs worldwide. And the economy will improve. And real wages for everybody will rise. And quality of life will improve. And, yes, the private sector would be making bank off of all this money that people have to spend on their useless, yet convenient, products. It’s America. It’s our right. And it works for everybody.
-tnksky
