>Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, interviewed on PBS Television's News Hour with Jim Lehrer, >indicated that bolstering capital investment was on the minds of policymakers trying to devise ways to >add stimulus to a shocked economy. > >O'Neill said capital spending already was waning before the attacks. ``The weakness in our economy >has been on the investment side -- not on the consumer spending side,'' he said. > >''So if you work from a set of principles, you ask yourself the question, what is it that we could do that >would add to the investment side of our economic equation?'' This "set of principles" is code for dogma. It is the same old dogma that drove us off the cliff. It's time for something different. Sorry if Doug thinks that saying so is gloating. Tom Walker Bowen Island, BC 604 947 2213
