You make some good points here. Speaking of distorting the word ‘investment’, the current Presidential Administration is calling an additional 7 trillion dollars in deficit spending an (INVESTMENT). This is outrageous. The word ‘investment’ has been tossed around so much that it no longer has any meaning. It seems as if this word is just cover for our addiction to spending money we don’t have or at least money that we have not printed yet.

Investment defined compliments of dictionary.com is as follows: The investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.

I fail to see the connection of how adding 7 trillion dollars of debt to our books can be considered an investment. If it were, then we would see a positive return on the spending/investment, right?. But this not the case, we are on pace to amass trillion dollar after trillion dollar deficit year in and year out as far as the eye can see…

When we should be saving and moving to cash the government keeps pumping air into the busted economy by propping up failed institutions. Soon we will run out of other people’s money and no one will lend to us. I guess we can ‘print and spend’ our way out of our self-inflicted economic malaise.

Sometimes I think the only difference between Bernie Madoff and our government is that ol’ Bernie did not have the ability to print money to keep his gig going.

Goodbye America, Hello Zimbabwe!