I can agree with both of these and probably add more. None of that is government spending. Government spending raises the national debt but it doesn't cause unemployment and the economy to belly up.
Why is it that the Republicans are trying to "push back the ballooning size of the recovery plan?"
Why are they not trying to defeat this bill, revoke the bailout of 2008 and demand the money be returned to the treasury?
I tell you why, because the Republicans are only one degree less liberal than the democrats.
No, I do not think that would solve the problem.
What I do think is that it puts the responsibility where it belongs, with the individual or company that made the bad decision.
Covering decisions made by people without common sense is not a function of the federal government.