Have you ever stopped to consider that, regarding the government, doing nothing might be better than acting quickly and screwing the situation up worse?

Like I said before, the Congressional Budget Office, which is supposed to be non-partisan, crunched the numbers on the Obama/Pelosi/Reed "stimulus" plan, and issued a report that said that over the long run (3-5 years) that it will do more harm than good. What this is, quite simply, is using crack to pep up a sleepy economy. Sure, it'll be rip-roaring to go for a little while, but then it'll inevitably come down again and be worse than it was because. The crack treated the symptoms of fatigue, but not the cause. Then what? Like any junkie, the only way to avoid the pain of coming down is more crack, and more crack... just to keep going, until eventually the economy falls apart and is saved only by suffering a very long and painful detox process (Great Depression and WWII), or it dies (Soviet Union circa 1991).


Mike