@JPB,
JPB wrote:
I can't say I entirely disagree either, and I think it's irrelevant who or what is primarily responsible.
The pain ahead of us, however, will be determined by those who are determined to fight the good fight to the end.
Identifying who or what is responsible is of no value if it will be used only for the purposes of political castigation, but it is exremely relevant if one wants to develop a solution.
You can't solve a problem unless you know how it was caused.
There is pain endured in a good and productive fight, and there is pain endured in a feckless fight that makes the problem worse.
Case in point: Our current economic woes may or may not have been exacerbated by the Democrats' stimulus package.
There are plenty of respected (at least by some) people who today argue that the failure of the stimulus package was that it was not bold enough; more tax money should have been spent.
Don't we need to know, or at least agree upon, what has caused our economic woes before we can fashion a solution?
If the competing solutions are spend no more money and spend lots more money, it seems that consensus is required.
