Do Something!

The entire workforce of Circuit City is getting pink slips. That's close to 40,000 people - the size of a small city like New London or Norwich. This shock to the economy reverberates well beyond that to thousands of others who dealt with the bankrupt electronics retailer. With stories like this out there for all to see, you still have to wonder whether our representatives in Washington get it. The President is trying to reach across the aisle to get bipartisan cooperation on a stimulus package. While not perfect, most economists say drastic action is needed. Not one Republican voted for the package. In all fairness, there were a lot of items in the stimulus that had nothing to do with emergency measures, and Republicans had every right to point that out. $50 million in arts funding is pork barrel spending, at least when it's attached to this emergency funding. People who are hurting are not going to stand for inability by Congress to work together or the tacking on of special interest pork, and I hope this President won't either.