Message #4764

[wbcoleman]

A metaphor:
A man had a near fatal heart attack and his Surgeon Obama, had saved his life and put him on a regiment of less stress over wars, manufacturing, and the possibility of a good future job, because he has removed the Junk food called Bush from his diet. The man after 3 and a half years has improved his vitality and endurance. In a overheard conversation he was heard saying to another friend, " I thank God for a man like Obama who cares about people like me in the middle class and the poor, by taking us off the Bush junk food that was killing us all."  The surgeon said that to build a lasting life you half to change what caused your near fatal attack with a slow build up, reforms and most of all the removal of those things that made you sick in the first place over several years.  kentay.

If we take kentay's metaphor seriously, then the question is whether proper treatment on the part of Surgeon Obama results in maximum response after 3 1/2 years or whether more time is needed.  I would suggest that, for the medical condition kentay chose, 90+% of the cure would have shown up.  After 3 1/2 years such a patient, properly treated, is going to improve about as much as he's ever going to improve.  Frankly, such a patient would improve for, what, 6-12 months?  Then he would, hopefully, plateau.

So is this really our situation?  Has O's 3 1/2 year treatment of the U.S. economy brought about maximal improvement?  ONE SURE AS HELL HOPES NOT, RIGHT??