The Planet Will Continue To Cook.

If We Discovered That, You Know, Space Aliens Were Planning To Attack And We Needed A Massive Buildup To Counter The Space Alien Threat And Really Inflation And Budget Deficits Took Secondary Place To That, This Slump Would Be Over In 18 Months. ... There Was A Twilight Zone Episode Like This In Which Scientists Fake An Alien Threat In Order To Achieve World Peace. Well, This Time, We Don't Need It, We Need It In Order To Get Some Fiscal Stimulus.

What Saved The Economy, And The New Deal, Was The Enormous Public Works Project Known As World War Ii, Which Finally Provided A Fiscal Stimulus Adequate To The Economy’s Needs.

I Really Think That People Have To Think Safety; Taking Risks For Higher Yield Is A Bad Idea Once You're In Late Or Latish Middle Age.

Something Terrible Has Happened To The Soul Of The Republican Party. We've Gone From Bad Economic Doctrine. We've Even Gone Beyond Selfishness And Special Interests. At This Point We're Talking About A State Of Mind That Takes Positive Glee In Inflicting Further Suffering Upon The Already Miserable.

The Party Of Ideas Has Become The Party Of Beavis And Butthead.