I consider myself a realist and pragmatic. We are seeing a recession because there is more “government money” ie taxpayer money floating about with no products to support the spending. When the government puts our money out there, that means that money is not being spent on things the military needs that supports the military contractor ecosystem. Some people don’t like military contractors, but they support big paying jobs. Other expenses and defecit reduction are also not receiving those dollars. There are two common ways the US government raises money. The first is taxation and the second common way is tarrifs and fees applied to imports and exports. Think of this supply like a jar full of pennies. If you keep pulling pennies out and don’t put more in, you eventually run out of pennies. When the government prints money to spend, it is not backed by anything more than a promise. This promise reduces the value of the money being printed, another means of inflation because the dollar looses value when compared to other countries.

All this explains my thoughts. To stimulate the economy, the government needs to make it easier for US companies and workers to produce more products so that there are more jobs. More jobs means more taxable income. More taxable income means more money available to be spent. The moral of the story is that people really don’t get something for nothing. Someone ends up paying for everything.