Obamaconomy andCan you feel the love tonight (lion king)

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I can see what's happening
(What?)
And they don't have a clue
(Who?)
They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line
Our trio's down to two.
(Oh.)
[In a sarcastic mock-French accent]
Ze sweet caress of twilight
[Back to normal, but still sarcastic]
There's magic everywhere
And with all this romantic atmosphere
Disaster's in the air
[FS:]
Can you feel the love tonight?
The peace the evening brings
The world, for once, in perfect harmony
With all its living things
[Simba:]
So many things to tell her
But how to make her see
The truth about my past? Impossible!
She'd turn away from me
[Nala:]
He's holding back, he's hiding
But what, I can't decide
Why won't he be the king I know he is
The king I see inside?
[Chorus:]
Can you feel the love tonight?
The peace the evening brings
The world, for once, in perfect harmony
With all its living things
Can you feel the love tonight?
You needn't look too far
Stealing through the night's uncertainties
Love is where they are
[Timon:]
And if he falls in love tonight
It can be assumed
[Pumbaa:]
His carefree days with us are history
[Timon and Pumbaa:]
In short, our pal is doomedThe economy will recover. It won’t recover anytime soon. It is likely to get significantly worse over the course of 2009, no matter what President Obama and Congress do. And resolving the financial crisis will require both aggressiveness and creativity.
The prescription developed almost a century ago by John Maynard Keynes does appear to work.
Magazine Preview - The Big Fix - Can Barack Obama Really Transform the U.S. Economy? - NYTimes.com

Stimulus,Stimulus :Essence or Non-sense for Dummies

drawing by marguerita- from The Hormones series
WASHINGTON — The fresh evidence on Friday of the economy’s downward spiral focused even more attention on two questions:
Is the stimulus package being pushed by President-elect Barack Obama big enough?
And will the component parts being assembled by Congress provide the most bang for the buck?
...as the Federal Reserve has been learning for months now, the biggest obstacle to economic activity right now is not a shortage of money. The real obstacle is pervasive fear.
“It’s much bigger than anything that’s been tried in my lifetime, but this is scarier than anything we’ve seen in my lifetime,” Professor Auerbach said.Mark M. Zandi, chief economist at Moody’sEconomy.com, a forecasting firm, told a forum of House Democrats this week that the “bang for the buck” — the additional economic activity generated by each dollar of fiscal stimulus — was highest for increases in food and unemployment benefits
“It’s that current conditions are not normal and are not favorable to rebates or broad tax relief.”

.....economists and policy makers acknowledge that there is no playbook.

“I don’t know of any convincing evidence that what has been proposed is going to be enough.” Plan to Jump-Start Economy With No Instruction Manual - NYTimes.com