Non-lame Alliterative Catch Phrases

The Three R's of Economic Renewal: Reform, Relief, and Recovery

If only to avoid another debacle like "temporary, targeted, and timely", it might be a good idea for progressives to have their own handy, alliterative catchphrase to use to frame the second economic stimulus package and related measures, like responses to the foreclosure crisis, Democrats in Congress are calling for.

Here's my first crack at a catch phase: reform, relief, and recovery. That is, anything that Congress does on economic policy this year should be designed to: reform a broken economic system that has given us two asset bubbles in the last decade and a return to Gilded Age levels of inequality; relieve the economic distress and dislocation caused by the current downturn; and be of sufficient size to bring about a broad-based recovery from the current downturn.

Submitted by Shawn Fremstad on 17 April, 2008 - 10:09.