Unfortunately, when one does not have an integral domestic political economy, but rather a globalized one, 'domestic''spending' is like 'walking in the wind', without developmental reform. it might rouse the old lion slightly from his torpor.
Just 'Spending' is not an industrial or commercial policy. It may be better than nothing; it is what American policy makers have been limited to.
Merely either reelecting, or turning out, the usual incumbents, will not move political structures to more effective stewardship of the American peoples' 'general welfare'. (Welfare, for economists since Adam Smith, has usually meant, unfortunately, 'global economic welfare'.)
Americans have been occupied with their everyday lives; trusting that things were politically going along, 'generation to generation', in slow, but merely fitful, trend toward greater prosperity.
That has not been the case, but has caught most Americans, long distracted from the underlying causes for the cul de sac, at a practical and spiritual loss, and turning toward cruder explanations for causes and solutions because those, like the paradigm, sell.
What is the invisible hand now telling you to do?
I, 'on the other hand', would warn my fellow Americans to be alarmed at what this groping, invisible hand, more like the 'The Hand of Casanova'(c) than of Providence, has long been doing 'behind your back'.
This is the kind of spot where I really need a cartoonist..............................
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