The problem we have here is point of view. I see a suffering economy as   good, you see it as bad. A suffering economy is a symptom to a problem. It   tells us we need to fix something. The same way that when your body gets   sick, your body sends you signal that something is wrong. If we never had   those symptoms, we would die. Because we would never know there was anything   wrong with us.        The   idea is not to give the economy pain killers so we don't have to feel the   pain. The idea is to feel the pain so we don't make the same mistakes again   in the future. You want to treat the symptoms. I want to treat the disease.