Words are an important part of the political battle. Who ever controls the words controls the debate, thus the difference between an "undocumented worker" and an "illegal alien." And in this current economic crisis, the word of the day is "Stimulus." But really we are beyond the point of "Stimulus". When the Fed changes rates from 5.25% to 5.00%, that is stimulus. When the Federal Treasury sends out tax rebate checks, that is stimulus. And to be frank, we've already tried those things and they didn't seem to do a damn bit of difference. We should admit that when Congress voted to allow the Treasury Secretary to spend $700 billion to shore up the financial system, we were way past stimulus. We are now into "mitigation".
As in, we are now in a recession and possibly heading into a Depression, so we need the mitigate the pain the country is already feeling. The economy doesn't need smelling salts, it needs morphine. The truth is the government has a lot less control over the economy than either Democrats or Republicans will admit (you can't exactly run for office on the slogan, "I can't make your life any better, but I look better on TV than my oppenent.)
So in a few months we will have a new president who feels the urgency of the situation (unlike the current clown incumbent. So hope he does some good mitigation, think happy thoughts, and smile through the pain.
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