THE BLOG
of John Gelles

May 29, 2009
My e-mail to the President at whitehouse.gov/open
Is Rush Limbaugh Right ?
The President is Playing Politics ?

You, Mr. President are accused of failure to achieve greater current and likely future income for middle class and more needy persons--on purpose--to make them even more dependent on Democrats in office for economic hope than before or now.

You claim the accusation is without merit. You admit the economic picture is bleak for a great many of your supporters. But you claim there is no magic bullet:

Your supporters have no better alternative than your own experts--and their actions. That is, the Republican alternative is worse than supporting you in 2010 aqnd 2012.

I claim your critic Rush Limbaugh is correct:

You hold off--on pursuing magic bullets--because you are sure your supporters have no better person than you to follow, and, you have no faith in testing magic bullets.

My magic bullet is a National Economic Security Agency with analytical power on a par with the NSA. Its dynamic data bases would be supported by computers equal to those of the NSA.

It could direct payments to any account on earth (especially American accounts). It could anticipate and react to the favorable and unfavorable micro and macro results of such payments.

It could maintain full employment. full production, full consumption, full investment, and full planning to end any business cycle effects that robbed the nation--or its individuals-- of the fruits of hard work and scientific method.

If you do not start something of this sort in this direction, perhaps your Republican rivals will also not start--and they be also be content to fail the nation, its entrepreneurs and middle and working classes.

You will join them being no Ben Franklin, no Lincoln, no Roosevelt-Eccles-Morgenthau, no good at all--to your children or mine.

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