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By: Janet Wendy Spiegel

Janet Wendy Spiegel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:15:46 +0000

Hi Cindy. You outline the concerns that are affecting the entire global economy. We have a huge challenge and one that is different than ever in the history of our world because the global economy is so entwined. There is no “fix-it” solution and you are quite right — it isn’t really the government that is going to get us out of this. The populations of each country will individually and collectively move us out of this disaster by innovation and determination. The stimulus package is just that…a stimulus — a catalyst — to try and bump the economy forward a step or two. If enough jobs can be created, the momentum will continue to carry the economy out of this mess. It will take years for the economy to correct itself…not days or weeks. And partisanship or bi-partisanship aside, any step forward is still a step forward. I’ll be writing a new post, inspired by some of your comments.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:05:15 +0000

After reading the recent posts and comments about our current economic situation, I have a perspective that I hadn’t had before. I wish I could say that I feel better for it. I hope I am wrong about the picture I am getting. I don’t see the election of President Obama as a mandate. Most of the people I talked with before the election felt as I did; we wish we had had more and/or better choices for President. Even though I did not vote for him, I held out a lot of hope after the election and through inauguration day. I placed my hope in the new administration for a new way of doing things; the change promised and hoped for. I have been more than disappointed. I am appalled. It is a a frightening re-work of many bad ideas. The idea that we should “just do something” is now going to cost my children and grandchildren an obscene amount of money. Many of the items in this “stimulus” bill are ideas that should be discussed at a later time. How many of us spend huge amounts of money without knowing the terms of what we are signing? Where is the openness that Pres. Obama promised? Why is he promoting fear instead of hope? The New Deal DID NOT end the Depression, WWII and the subsequent build-up did. It seems that over that last few decades the idea of what our country is and should be has changed. When did we begin believing that our government was the answer to everything? From what I can see our government officials on “both sides of the aisle” got us into this and now we trust them to fix it? Help me understand this.