Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
In my mind, the best thing Congress could do to assist in economic recovery is to not participate. If government were likely to create an environment conducive to economic recovery, that would be helpful, but that obviously hasn't been the case.

I think a strong case could be made for linking all of our economic woes to government intervention and legislated social engineering. A little intransigence now and then is a good thing.
Our economic woes? Just who is "us", anyway? There's a lot of people who have done pretty well the last couple of years. I haven't watched, but I haven't heard of anyone speaking at the convention turn out their pockets and say how much they've lost recently.

If the government stayed out of it, we'd have a much stronger recovery - because we would have had a much stronger crash. A little intransigence now and then is a good thing - but not for everyone.