Bill Foster: “The failure to remove these benefits are causing our country to lose, and I quote, "about one years' worth of economic…”

If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation.

I have been amused for a long time at how can it be that there is legislation supported by 70 or 80 percent of the public, a clear majority of Members of Congress, and yet we are not allowed to even vote on it.

The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed.

Frankly, when I read about this, it triggered my PTSD from the AIG situation with credit default swaps during the financial crisis.