Can We Have the Marshall Plan Money Back Now?

On April 3rd, 1948 Harry Truman, one of the best Presidents because he did nothing, signed the Marshall Plan, sending $13.3 billion dollars to aid in the recovery of Europe after World War II.

Sixty years later that money is worth about $260 billion which would go far in addressing the problems in the US. So we will need that back now.

Actually yesterday.

Sure, I know that our country benefited from the recovery plan in the form of export markets and reliable trading partners but you are much better off now then sixty years ago. You have a European Union, a stable form of currency, buildings. Unfortunately you also have the French but good things in life don’t come without trade-offs.

We, on the other hand are about to elect a President who will tax us more so that we can have crappy health care managed by the government instead of pressuring the industry to stop over-charging the shit out of everyone.

Hospitals used to be run by churches but since they had to spend millions of dollars on frivolous sexual assault lawsuits, religion had to get out of the health care business.

Fine, we exposed kid touchers in the clergy but at what cost? So a hospital visit can cost a couple hundred dollars? I’d rather have a few priests being overly friendly with a choir boy than a trip to the emergency room bankrupting me.

Europe, we have bigger problems then just a weak economy and if we needed that money back yesterday, we will need it more on Inauguration Day. We only have a few more years until all these boomers with their social/communist ideas retire and leave us picking up the pieces and paying for their social security.

That $260 billion will come in handy.

I know it is a lot of money to come up with all at once so we can set up a payment plan, with interest of course. One more thing, if you could pay in Euros that would be great. The dollar isn’t looking so hot since we printed a ton of it in an attempt to fix our economic problems.

Hell, we will even take France if that makes it easier for you. Then we will have a place for the socialists to live.