Regarding John Stossel

It takes a certain
amount of nerve
to be someone
like John Stossel,
whom I respect
more than any
other investigative
reporter today.

Just recently he
did a piece about
the stimulus package
that punched the
final holes in its logic,
and for that, I've
got to be grateful,
because, well hey,
someone has to make
sense, right?

For eight years
everyone complained
about an administration
that they could do
nothing but get
in the way of,
except when they
were agreeing with it
and bitching later,
mocking it in
every possible way,
and the new president
is a direct result
of a collective will
to believe that
everything was as
it seemed, and no one
had to put a single
thought into it,

just demagoguery.

An economic cycle
that began well before
eight years ago finally
came to a head recently,
and Stossel seems
to believe that we're
not even right to be
panicking now.

On the one hand,
I shouldn't be happy
with that thought
because my job is
one of those that's
been severely threatened
by the recession,
but on the other,
I can appreciate what
he means because
I see all around me
only misery caused
by terrible management,
and that's the true
source of failure,
which a bad economy
addresses above all.

Now, the way to
get things going
again is to get
things going smartly,
not simply to get
them going, again,
since all you get if
you plug along
a doomed course
is the same view,
right before you
reach the end of it,

again,

and if you don't
recognize the problem
then, you've got,
well, the same problem.

To have someone like
Stossel on network TV,
reporting in an age
of voices saying whatever
they think is clever,
is reassurance
that everything's not lost,
and that once again,
we can have faith
in that big stupid
economy called mankind,
where the ebb & flow
of time rocks along
regardless of what
we think works.