Consumer Spending Better than Expected

[opebo]

There's nothing wrong with consumers spending within their means, by the way.

Um.. yes there is - it causes a depression.  We need to increase the means.

But this increase was just depression related - people buying tents for their new life under the bridges, and of course guns.

[opebo]

Rewarding recklessness is a terrible long-term economic strategy.

What are you talking about?  The problem is not 'recklessness', it is oppression, and that oppression is very deliberate.