> Chuck wrote: > response in the short-term. but does a stimulus (or even -this- stimulus) > necessarily need to be limited to short-term goals? >
Especially when we're talking about a few pennies and it'll create work for someone in the short term? Seems like people keep thinking that if we just pay off a few bad mortgages everything will be just fine. It won't! We're possibly talking about a restructuring of our entire financial infrastructure: "The most obvious problem with the stimulus package is that it has been turned into a fiscal piñata with a mad scramble for candy on the floor. We seem all too eager to rectify a generation of a nation saving too little by saving even less this time through expanding government borrowing. First it was former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's bubble, then Wall Street's, and now in the third act it will be Washington's." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/35438c54-ec8a-11dd-a534-0000779fd2ac.html In other words, our entire system is very likely bro ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287362 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
