Great article and certainly food for thought. I find myself more leaning toward the Ron Paul feeling that LOWER taxes will create jobs more efficiently and quickly than just throwing money out there.

I admit, and have many times, that this economic crisis is a bit beyond me, but my "gut" tells me that throwing our government money at everything with absolutely no control over what happens to it is going to create more of what we all scream about.....some folks will get rich...the problem will remain.
Mainly because it is controlled by POLITICIANS...we saw what our "leaders" did when they were warned two years ago or more about what was occuring...NOTHING except defend those institutions that were driving us into a hole ...WHY...because the got campaign funds from those folks.

Are any of the members of congress going to turn down their automatice pay increase this year ? I would bet NO...but we should tighten our belt !!!!!!

Only one area that I would consider throwing some government money at is healthcare, but even in that area I need to be totally convinced about the motivation and the controls.

I know this is a shallow response to a complicated problem, but I am not prepared to throw away our free enterprise system this fast and this soon. We dont seem to want to talk about HOW we got here much because we say it is spilt milk or whatever but isnt that the way to remedy the future ? Perhaps, those who have a bit of "milk on their face" do not want to talk about how we got here, but when I hear the mortgage crisis and I hear WE KNEW THIS MAY HAPPEN TWO YEARS AGO, I just get angry. When I hear we will now bail out folks who should not have had a mortgage in the first place so they can move on and retain their ownership while us poor slobs had to earn it..I just get angry. When I hear we want to throw money at people with no control over it I get angry.

And when I hear that the folks making the decision on how much and to whom are the same folks that ignored the problem and probably are much of the root cause I get REALLY ANGRY.

Sorry...not much substance but I feel better !