morning's "the new york times" talks about was a vote -- talks about roosevelt, and even though john maynard keynes was not popular at the time, he tried a keynesian approach, trying to put money into the community, trying to korean war aggregate demand and moving the economy out of the depression, and with some success, but then, he decided it was time to hit the brakes. we have a deficit, so he backed off of the stimulus. and as he backed off, the depression started whirring again, with higher and higher unemployment, and some say we suffered as a nation with us until the advent of world war two, when we started the economy would virtually full employment and moved us to a different place. i am trying to put that historical lesson in the context of today. as we look at our charge year to bring down our nation's long- term debt, we do in a face of a pretty serious recession, and some say $8 a -- 8 million people. and this is growing at a slower pace. and there are concerns about whether or not we are going to sink back into a deeper recession if we are not careful. i happen to believe that we are