Turn to the Senate. They're back from vacation. Between congratulations to good friends and colleagues from the other side of the aisle, and history lessons you're not likely to hear elsewhere, senators are actually trying to decide what the government can do to stimulate the economy (besides take another vacation). What a regulatory agency can do to help free enterprise, which generally translates into get off its back.

Don't give up. Help is coming. They've got dozens of proposals and hundreds of amendments to those proposals. Thousands of amendments to the amendments and some that will even be voted upon if they're not sent to committee. All within the context of the idea that something must be done to help the industries that are left in this country and the millions of workers who have lost their jobs. It's up to government to plunge forward—tentatively.

The loyal press and media will even report on some of these proposals, the ones they understand. Sandwiched in-between commercials and reports of our boys dying or wounded from accidents and friendly fire in Afghanistan or Pakistan, you will occasionally get a report of some of these heavy deliberations.

So far, in the four months this has been a topic of the Senate, we've had some ideas that made limited sense. Until they realized that the public might suddenly discover how much money they've been stealing from entitlements, everybody seemed to be on the bandwagon to suspend payroll taxes for awhile, to put the 15.3 percent tax on everyone's cost of having a job on vacation for a month or so. This would put immediate cash in the hands of American workers who would then, like the good consumers they are, put that extra money into the economy. People would rush out and shop 'til they drop. Lackluster retail business would pick up. We could eat cake until the taxes come back from vacation.

Senator Tom Daschle, democratic majority leader of the Senate, came up with half that idea. He came up with an idea somewhat surprising for a democrat who usually accuses republicans of favoring the rich. He suggested temporarily suspending payroll taxes on the employer's end. Companies could save the matching funds they usually contribute to their employee's retirement and health care. This would allow them to build a little nest egg that might lead to yearlong deliberations of new tooling, research, new product development or even keeping some of their employees a while longer. A payroll tax break for the captains of industry.

These ideas have, of course, gone by the wayside. They were nothing more than brief interruptions in business-as-usual anyway, but are now as dead as lock-boxes were before the war. But your good senators haven't given up. They've got other ideas.

The latest item is Bonus Depreciation. It means that the government would allow industry to write-off more of their equipment over time. Another tax break for big business down the line that the government hopes would make management start thinking about investing in new tooling, and so forth, maybe even get around to doing it in a year or so.

The Senate is currently debating variations on this new theme. It's nothing more than more trickle-down economics that might, just might reach the little guy sometime in the distant future.

Remember, the name of the game is to stall. To keep the sheeple content grazing within the fences until the harvest is in. If this takes a little extra feed so Uncle Scam can continue reaping hundreds of billions in extra profits and pay-off one of his credit cards, so be it. The government has to do something to look like it's trying to help the country get back on its feet. And they have no intention of giving up the hundreds of billions in entitlement money they've been stealing.

They will never do something as simple as cutting the surplus out of Social Security, Medicare, gas taxes, and all of the other entitlements that allow their crazy spending and pork-barrel paybacks. The $160.7 billion they plundered last year, $98.7 from Social Security alone.

Cutting payroll taxes 16 percent would put immediate money in every worker's pocket.

Remember that the ten-year Great Depression started in 1929 and was only a recession until February of 1932 when banks closed and people started jumping off buildings. But nothing like that could happen again, right?