They wrote letters to some Senators but c'mon. I say give them all first class plane fare and get their butts to DC like yesterday.

I for one am getting more than a little nervous knowing that the fate of our nation rests in the hands of people who stand in front of cameras saying “We don't understand this. Wallstreet doesn't understand this. No one really understands this”

*shudder*

And these are the people meeting behind closed doors to determine our financial (and literal) future as a nation??

Someone definitely not only understands this, but knows exactly how to fix it too. They have PhDs in economics and have lived, breathed and dookied nothing but economics their entire professional lives. My personal hunch is the reason they're not being invited is that Congress really doesn't want expert witnesses to the deals being cut that won't do the right thing: Build our country back from the lowly worker up. “Trickle-Up Economics”.

Too many pockets are lining up for a gravy ladel and leading economists know, as did King Louis XVI's economists, that the paunch aristocrats will have to drab down their lives in order to insure that their very revenue wellspring, the common man, doesn't dry up.

Well, you know the rest. King Louis fired his finance minister on the advice of his little brother, special sessions were held to placate the masses and lead them to think something was being done for them; meanwhile closed-door sessions were held that benefitted the rich classes instead. And then when those resolutions passed at the hurt of the masses…well…

Heads did roll…

I say that kind of tragedy is avoidable. I say invite the experts to stand in front of the nation and describe why Trickle-Up economics is the only sound solution to keep everyone's head cool and attached above the shoulders..

Why should be trust them to get it right this time?