Expat - The package may be designed to reassure people, but I think it is having the exact opposite effect. If our elected leaders would get their own financial house in order and then come to us and explain that our economy is not in fact teetering on the brink of collapse, that alone may reassure people. Regardless, though, the current approach is most certainly not accomplishing that goal. The headlines of Congress rushing to avert a financial meltdown are only adding to the angst of Americans.

Wrong plan. Wrong time. Wrong message.