Living Within Our Means

The current economic situation and the government’s response all center around one main issue:  living within our means.

We have a fundamental choice: either we can work harder, produce more, and fuel our consumptive behavior, or we can start living within our means, pay as we go, and be smart investors.

Printing more green paper is not a productive act. Consuming more than we can afford is not a productive act. Investing blindly is not a productive act.

Our country and it’s policies need to center around the economic fundamentals of productivity and savings. Out of control consumption, and the government bailout of such activity only prolongs the fundamental choice that we have to make.

Government needs to let market pressure force American corporations and American people to live within their means. By printing more paper, we are encouraging the same destructive behavior that got us into this mess.

Common sense dictates that we need to live within our means. So why can’t government simply let us do that?