He's got one thing right, we are long past needing help. When your Congress cares about reducing taxes on the rich, but not about the rest, you have a prescription for the '1789' situation. Schama apparently saw it this way, somewhat, also.
Mise en scene for a cartoon:
Picture e.g. one of Daumier's medical themes, the emaciated elderly patient (Uncle Sam) is in bed in a garret, being ministered to by two physicians, one's smock reads Monetarist/Keynesian, the other, the Fed/Circulatory Specialist.
The plump elderly wife is standing anxiously by. Dino the dog, emaciated, empty bowl, sleeping fitfully at the foot of the bed.
The caption above reads: "Structural Problems";
the one below, the economist physician speaks to her:
"I am afraid it is 'consumption'.
There is very little we can do at this point.
He will never return to equilibrium."
Indicating his partner, "He already tried a transfusion, without success.'
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