A packet of cucumber seeds costs a dollar-ninety-eight. Same with carrots, zucchini, egg plant, summer squash and peas. If you ask for last year's unsold seeds, they're usually free. They will still sprout.
 
On the front of each packet comes a colored picture of what the plants will look like. On the back, detailed instructions on planting time, sun or shade, watering requirements and yield.
 
For under two bucks, you get fifty cucumber seeds. From each seed you get maybe fifty cucumbers. Same with zucchini, egg plant, summer squash and peas.
 
Do the math.
 
There's not a better deal on the planet!
 
And some people consider farmers, dumb. 
 
The farmer understands that much can come from little. 
 
The politician proves that little can come from much. 
 
In 1933, they called it the New Deal. Franklin D. Roosevelt planted the seed of Central Economic Planning: "Government Knows Best." 
 
FDR hoped his seed would take root in the sad soil of unemployment. He prayed his seed would spring strong from the filthy dirt of financial greed. He believed with all his heart that his seed would bring relief, reform and recovery. 
 
But the seed was a weed and unfortunately, the war is what brought relief, reform and recovery, not what FDR planted.
 
The difference between a good seed and a bad seed is what it produces. 
 
"By their fruits, you will know them."
 
A new, New Deal, the "Stimulus Package", will cost us over a trillion dollars.
 
A trillion dollars would buy a world load of manure and a billion, five-hundred-thousand packets of seeds.
 
That's a whole bunch of cucumbers, carrots, zucchini, egg plant, summer squash and peas.
 
FDR had a tremendously big heart. So does our President Mr. Obama.
 
Applaud them for that.
 
But remind them that farmers aren't dumb.
 
They plant such tiny little seeds. They water them. They weed them. They make sure the seeds get plenty of sunshine. They thin them, protect them, feed them and, with the patience possessed by farmers, they watch them grow.

We can't expect to start out with a thousand billion processed, canned and on the shelf, cucumbers, zucchini, egg plant, summer squash and peas.
 
We all need to plant smaller, personal gardens and go tend them.
 
Quickly.