Reflections of a stormy petrel

That is called apportioning blame, and to do it in the middle of a mortal crisis is about as stupid as to play with gasoline in a fire. In 1940, Winston Churchill put several of the people who had been most guilty of appeasement in his government. Why? Because in a mortal crisis you simply call on every resource you have. Right now, what is needed is to reduce debt, fast and by any means possible. Find the cash where it is. To insist on cutting while one part of the economy takes no part in the general sacrifice is idiotic. And to assume you are speaking for all true Americans is politically both stupid and dangerous. We in Italy have just passed an emergency budget in two days, including savage cuts and tax increases, in a similar situation. There will be time enough to work out who's to blame after the fire has been put out.