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is nirvana for those involved, but not for the economy as a whole, and not on the net for most of the population. What we need is not to pour money over everything in the hopes that will make everything better (and it won't), but consequences for wrongdoing. The people who profited from this big pump and dump scheme called the economy ought to be subject to clawback, and the key figures prosecuted and punished severely. The people who bought more than they can pay for ought to lose their investments. People who had nothing to do with the problem should not be paying for people who made bad decisions. That is what the economy is waiting for.
In the absence of a complete totalitarian state, the ability of the public sector to effect change is going to be less than the ability of the private sector to do so. Along our current path, the rogue elements in the private sector are being rewarded for malfeasance, paid for by those who were not responsible for their actions. This is insane; it is unjust on the most basic level, and the fact that as a country we actually operate like this is the root of the problem. Normal problem solving process goes Problem->Analysis->Solution... this country's goes like Problem->Ignore it->Shit hits fan->Panic and make problem worse.
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