There’s an ancient meme about people who have no idea how to solve a problem except by “throwing money at it”. We tend to think of such people as being less than smart, less than wise. No wonder the gov’t is trying to fix things by throwing money at it. But the problem won’t go away by itself, so lacking a better solution, it seems to me that we really ought to be throwing money at it. Because otherwise, people are going to die… though, maybe that doesn’t matter too much to the folks at the top…
There’s an ancient meme about people who have no idea how to solve a problem except by “throwing money at it”. We tend to think of such people as being less than smart, less than wise. No wonder the gov’t is trying to fix things by throwing money at it. But the problem won’t go away by itself, so lacking a better solution, it seems to me that we really ought to be throwing money at it. Because otherwise, people are going to die… though, maybe that doesn’t matter too much to the folks at the top…