For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: if we don't pass porkulus, we're doomed forever?
President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that failure to act on an economic recovery package could plunge the nation into a long-lasting recession that might prove irreversible, a fresh call to a recalcitrant Congress to move quickly.
Wait a minute: I thought we already are in the worst recession since World War II, and we need porkulus to get us out of it? Now it appears we need government to PREVENT US from going into a serious recession? Why the change in tack? Beyond this, we might NEVER come OUT of this recession unless government borrows trillions of dollars it doesn't have to inefficiently spend it now? If this is a cure for financial woes, why don't struggling Americans do the same thing?
With polls showing Americans losing interest in porkulus, will Obama's fearmongering work?
