Originally Posted by njbchbum

if the ninnies in washington proceed to let the bush tax breaks expire, which in turn can cause businesses to spiral down into the double dip recession, can the same ninnies adopt previous actions to grant businesses a tax break for each new employee who is hired? perhaps that would provide some sort of counter-balance to the adverse impact of said expiration?

i am no economist or major corp or small business entrepreneur - i just know what economic conditions i have survived in spite of several administrations - and i have never seen behavior such as this administration exhibits. if i was christine romer, i'd be running away, too!

i might start losing sleep over my economic future but it will not be because of the future of my small investments [much smaller now]...it is because i am sleeping on a mattress filled with the cashed-in proceeds of those investments!