It’s a beautiful day. The sun’s out, it’s 47 degrees and the snow is quickly vanishing. It Looks like it’s going to be nice to get outside.

The Wingnuts, meanwhile, seemed to have been stung by the idea that folks don’t believe they have a plan of their own and so now they have one: a spending freeze. And, like so many wingnut solutions,this one will make things worse. They really need to forget that stuff about creating their own reality and instead of just making stuff up, read a little history. Perhaps then they wouldn’t be so gung-ho about channeling Herbert Hoover. (J. Edgar either, for that matter.)

In Red Hook there is the 2nd oldest housing project in NYC. It was opened in 1933 to house the dockworkers and their families who were made destitute by the Great Depression. With the opening of Red Hook Public Housing, the Hooverville, a shanty-town 2 blocks away, was demolished and turned into a park. But many Hoovervilles persisted, named for the president whose spending freeze helped create them.

I hope we don’t have to live through another depression. People who did never could shake the experience.