Great analogy, John.



It is sound and frugal to limit your spending on utilities. It is INSANE to attempt to conserve water usage when the house is on fire. Our national house is ablaze.


My customer base are construction firms, mostly in the heavy highway construction field. ALL of them are teetering on the brink of insolvency as highway construction - sharply limited in the last couple years - came to a complete, utter and abrupt halt across this nation. Only a few projects already committed to have gone forward in the last 6 months and new contracts are nonexistant.


Without a sudden infusion of cash, this industry and hundreds of thousands of highly-skilled (and highly paid) employees will shortly cease to exist. Very shortly. Spend. Money. NOW. BUILD something, almost anything, anywhere. Or we can give the last rites to some of the few remaining jobs that CANNOT be outsourced and DO pay well without a college degree.


It is really pretty simple. It is amazing to watch the contortions of those who were so sanguine about fiscal responsibility for eight years as a one-party congress spent like drunken sailors on shore leave .... suddenly realize they are shocked! shocked! about deficit spending.



Right HARD right.