What the president doesn’t understand

Our president, an individual who has declared bankruptcy six times and basically bankrupted an entire football league, has said that he will quickly “fix” the economy. He has inherited an economy that is actually in good shape overall, excluding grocery prices. While he was running for office, he declared that he would quickly fix grocery prices (which is false) and then after he won the election, he said that he didn’t think he could do anything about grocery prices (which is true).

For those of you that still believe that he will be able “fix” the economy and lower grocery prices by using drastic measures, such as tariffs, I share the following analogy, which I used to describe to high school students on how the economy needs to be handled.

Imagine the economy as oatmeal cooking on a stove. One does not want oatmeal boiling over and causing a mess, such as a recession or a depression. If you are cooking the oatmeal on an electric stove and that oatmeal begins to boil up to the top, can you just reduce the heat on the stove to stop it from boiling over? No, you need to remove the pot from the stove (a radical action) to stop it from boiling over. If you cook the oatmeal on a gas stove, can you just turn down the heat to prevent the oatmeal from boiling over? Yes, you can. This allows you to adjust the heat to the proper temperature to properly cook the oatmeal.

Our president is going to attempt to cook the economy on an electric stove because he does not understand that the economy must be handled carefully, in a constant series of small adjustments in order to prevent it from boiling over and causing a mess.

Wayne Boeckelman

Hoffman Estates