With our President Elect's metaphor -- that we need to "jolt" the economy back to life -- it is clear that economy is an ailing, sick, old autocrat with a heart condition caused by terrible dietary habits and a lack of exercise. If we bring him back from the brink of death, we will be dealing with a sick, ineducable and ungrateful Paterfamilias. So why not let the old bastard die, so a new generation can take over? Why mortgage the future on medical treatments for the old man when we could use that money on the kids?