Surely They Can Read a Spreadsheet – NYTimes.com

Can’t read anything with your eyes closed and your brain draining out into the ether.

This is not the time for the usual demands by business for fewer regulations and lower taxes. The economy is too fragile and the deficit too high — in no small part because the George W. Bush administration spent eight years giving business and the wealthy exactly what they asked for.

Instead, business leaders should be pushing Washington for what is needed to avoid another recession: more near-term spending to stimulate the economy, more revenue to help pay for it, and a balanced approach to the long-term deficit by reducing health care costs and strengthening the tax base.

via Surely They Can Read a Spreadsheet – NYTimes.com.