Honestly something like a serious "green stimulus" would do a world of wonders and pay most of it self off if it was done. If the government massively retrofitted all of it's buildings, changed lighting, put solar panels on all gov building roofs, changed the entire fleet of all cars, including all postal trucks over to hybrids or full electrics, retrofitted all public housing units to reduce energy usage, this would stimulate all those industries. It would create jobs in those areas, from economies of scale it would reduce prices for those green items, creating more demand from other areas of the economy.

Or we could cancel unemployment benefits, lay off workers and see how well that does to turn things around. The problem with the people advocating pain is that they don't expect to feel much of the pain. They expect the little folk to suffer for the excesses of tax cuts for capital gains, give away tax breaks to big oil.

Fuck em. Seriously fuck em and the austrian horse they rode in on.