THE STORY OF YOUR ECONOMY
I am reminded of a song from my youth (long ago), Runaround Sue by Dion. You can listen to it on Youtube.com. It goes:
Here’s a story, sad but true.
It’s about a girl that I once knew.
She took my love then ran around with every single guy in town.
HURT! HURT! DUM DEE DUM DUM HURT! HURT!
DUM DEE DUM DUM HURT! HURT! DUM DEE DUM DUM
HURT! HURT! HURT! HURT!
This song captures your present situation which is sad but true.
You and me, almost all of us, are the guy.
Runaround Sue is your politicians.
Every other guy in town is Big Business.
We love what our politicians tell us. They say that they love us.
But, the laws that govern our society have slowly been changed so that now Sue has to go to Big Business to get enough money to be elected and re-elected.
That means that Sue has to give her love to Big Business and do what Big Business wants.
Big Business always wants to make more money.
So, Sue changes the laws for Big Business to allow them to make more money.
Since there is just so much money in our Economy, you get less when Big Business gets more. Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! Hurt!
See Economics is not that hard.
I am reminded of a song from my youth (long ago), Runaround Sue by Dion. You can listen to it on Youtube.com. It goes:
Here’s a story, sad but true.
It’s about a girl that I once knew.
She took my love then ran around with every single guy in town.
HURT! HURT! DUM DEE DUM DUM HURT! HURT!
DUM DEE DUM DUM HURT! HURT! DUM DEE DUM DUM
HURT! HURT! HURT! HURT!
This song captures your present situation which is sad but true.
You and me, almost all of us, are the guy.
Runaround Sue is your politicians.
Every other guy in town is Big Business.
We love what our politicians tell us. They say that they love us.
But, the laws that govern our society have slowly been changed so that now Sue has to go to Big Business to get enough money to be elected and re-elected.
That means that Sue has to give her love to Big Business and do what Big Business wants.
Big Business always wants to make more money.
So, Sue changes the laws for Big Business to allow them to make more money.
Since there is just so much money in our Economy, you get less when Big Business gets more. Hurt! Hurt! Hurt! Hurt!
See Economics is not that hard.