Look at the trillions of dollars our leaders can, all of a sudden, find to spend shoring up the economies now under threat because of an organic event that disrupts all that we had been told was so robust. Look at these trillions! It's right to spend to save jobs and lives, of course. But in this sudden, fearful, desperate profligacy, the bankruptcy (the hypocrisy) of conservative arguments for thrift, and against spending on what always really counts, is laid bare.