The government has achieved nothing and, as the prime minister and chancellor want the British people to putmore of their money on the line, surely the time has come for accepting the responsibility.
And there was an interesting story in The New York Times today saying that instructions have gone out within the White House staff for people to spend no more than 10 percent of their time on scandals, put generally.
With more than 4m surplus workers, corporate Japan could easily put 2m people on to the street by this time next year, sending the unemployment figure to an unimaginable 7%.
It would deter people from taking guns in public and committing more serious violent crimes that force judges to put the offenders away for a long time.