My proposal for Republicans is to admit that trickle down doesn't work (they've had 30 years of it and it still doesn't work), deregulation doesn't work (just look around us), starving the government doesn't work (who's going to pay the regulators who could have kept us out of this mess, not to mention the bill for their war?), and big business doesn't have our best interests in mind (corporations that exist only to produce income for investors cannot possibly have a social conscience).

So, Republicans, the best thing you could do for our country right now is to get out of the way. If it wasn't so tragic it would have been laughable hearing all the congressional Republicans pissing and moaning about the stimulus bill because it reversed the course they've had us on since Reagan. Get the message, folks: your policies don't work.

John P