The plan

I have heard some fairly good analogies concerning the new stimulus/ recovery/ spending/ what ever you want to call it bill. Yesterday some one repeated one I had already heard but added a couple of thoughts. It goes something like this:
You find you have a leak in the shallow end of your swimming pool. You take a bucket, fill it with water from the deep end and dump it in the shallow end. Soon you realize you are running out of water so you go to the Chinese and ask them to borrow some of their water. After a while the Chinese find they too have a leak in their pool and want their water back and tell you to go find your water some place else. A politician tells you he can solve your problems. He wants to take a shovel, dig a hole in the ground and start filling it with the water left in the pool. He tells you a pond will result and be self-containing. Soon you realize the politician doesn’t even know how to use the shovel and since you are too old, he hands the shovel to your children. The moral of this story is; if you wait on Washington and the government to fix the economic problems we face, you had better teach your children to use a shovel.