excon writes: "Borrowing and inflating the money supply IS the problem. Borrowing more, to inflate the money supply more, to make people feel better ISN'T the answer. I can't imagine why any fiscally conservative person would think it would." Fiscally conservative people don't believe giving away money to make people feel better is the right thing to do. It is cynical politics and has been the social policy of this once great country since FDR and LBJ. What would Reagan do?