Not Rocket Surgery

But if you're a manufacturer that makes, oh, let's say rat zappers, it's in your economic best interest for your government to ensure---via fiscal policy, primarily---that your customers possess the wherewithal to buy your rat zappers because if they don't, you can't make money. And when that happens, you cease production of rat zappers, lay off your workforce, etc., which places further downward pressure on the economy and weakens demand as increasing numbers of people have less and less money to spend on rat zappers. You'd think this line of reasoning to be elemental, since you don't really need to be an economist to figure it out, but for some reason, many of our best and brightest leaders don't seem to have a clue about how the way things work. Because if they did, stuff like this wouldn't be happening. Instead, the rats have won the day.

---Baron V