I'm pessimistic because I worry that with Bush in office nothing sensible can be done quickly enough, and side debates about the auto companies provide a distraction (it may be an important debate, but it isn't central to the question of immediate stimulus). Last Spring we did the shitty stimulus of giving people a few bucks, which unsurprisingly didn't cause the pony to appear. We need extension of unemployment benefits, food stamp increases, SUPERTRAIN and other infrastructure expenditures, and of course aid for state and local governments. And it's needed, you know, yesterday.
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