Turkey on Fire

The public is outraged. Congress is outraged. Fox News is apoplectic. Money is being wasted. They’re spending stimulus money on STOOPID things. The LA Times found unnecessary million-plus dollar project to repair a guardrail around a deserted man-made lake in the panhandle of Oklahoma that no one visits. $800k for a backup runway in a little airport in Pennsylvania where the main runway rarely gets used. Bill O’Reilly just burst a vein!

The Duck responds, yep, that’ll happen. When you’re putting out the fire on your roof, you really don’t worry about the few drops that hit your driveway.

(And in OK, they figured it out. Somebody said that’s a bad spend of money and they stopped it. )

Congress, the media, and the rest of the country, are also a little perturbed that we’re NOT FIXING THE WHOLE SYSTEM. They want a complete overhaul. It’s broken and they want it FIXED, NOW!!!.

The Duck responds, haven’t you noticed that the HOUSE IS ON FIRE? Maybe you might want to put it out before you start building the next one. Sure, it’s a good idea to better fireproof the house, but I don’t think you want to start wheeling in fire-retardant carpet while the flames are still lapping at the walls.

Some are saying don’t spend all this money, it’s not going to help and you’ll just make it worse.

The Duck responds, worse? People, the house is aflame. You don’t want me to turn the hose on it because you’re worried about flooding the basement? Yeah, maybe it won’t work, but I bet you stand outside your house with the hose on anyway.

Some are saying by borrowing money from the Chinese, we’re giving them too much power over the world economy.

The Duck responds: Chinese firemen are coming to save your house. Yeah, they might want the firefighting gig, with a fire station. Are you going to say no, you don’t really need a house?

Some are saying there’s not nearly enough money to make a difference.

The Duck responds: Nope, probably not. But I bet if your house was on fire, you wouldn’t stop trying to put it out just because the hose seemed kind of small.

So when I told all this to a warehouse employee in LA, when I said, “The house is on fire, and all this money is to try to put it out,” he said maybe the most telling thing I’ve heard in a long time.

He said, “Let it burn.”

They are THAT angry.