Both the author and the individual commenters make good points. Granted (as per the comments) that the money does not just appear with no side effects. Yes, it is a loan, inasmuch as it places our nation in deeper debt and must be paid back. On the other hand, it places us in deeper debt just the same if the money goes first to banks and bureaucrats. If the money were given to individual citizens at least we would have the benefit of perhaps paying off our mortgage or debt, instead of the bankers getting the money to lend back to us. But either way, we taxpayers will be stuck with the debt. 
 
If there were in fact a desire on the part of our politicians to cure the problem -- rather than to continue sucking the blood from our country -- they would do this: 
1)Drastically cut back our military spending to save almost a trillion dollars a year. 
2) Dissolve the Fed. 
3) Return to some commodity based (and thus stable) monetary system. 
4) Repudiate the current national debt 
5) Institute an electoral system that has a verifiable vote count 
 
Of course NONE of that is going to happen, for rather obvious reasons. What WILL happen, is that we citizens will either become serfs -- or there will be blood in the streets. The sad fact is that it is too late to fix the system by working within the system.

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