Washington, DC is tone-deaf to anything that does not involve shoveling money to bank fraudsters.
Stagnant Wages are continuing along with ever mounting unemployment.
Paul Krugman's column this week discusses "Falling Wage Syndrome" and says that it is a sign of a sick economy and can make the economy sicker.
There is a good explanation of the 'Paradox of Thrift' for the layperson which puts out the lights on exhortations to 'cut back' as a solution for depressed economies.
Also, Paul Krugman dances around what has been bought with $Trillions in Weasel Colony Feedings - An American version of "Japan's Lost Decade".
I'll go farther and stay with the Second Republican Great Depression is still coming as forclosures move into prime mortgages and commerical real estate.
RMD