CNN reports,

“Bush, flanked by economic advisers, said the nation’s economy is at risk for a downturn and Congress must act to head off trouble.”

Why must the President act to head off trouble? The real answers,

• So he will look like he’s doing something important and good.
• Because we have become a nation that doesn’t know how to save money and help ourselves and we’re totally dependent on our socialistic government to save us should even a slightly gray cloud appear on the horizon.

I say let the economy slump, please. Shake out all the misconceptions that we have about safety and the proper role of government. Let Countrywide fall into financial ruin (it’s their fault and the constitution doesn’t give the government power to spend my money on saving business that has no self-control and lends to anyone at ridiculous rates).

Let the open market control the open market. I don’t trust the government to have pure intentions. Bush’s plan probably includes hiring Haliburton to dig a million ditches to ‘stimulate’ the economy.