Bob Herbert, in his column on June 7th said:

There is no plan that I can see to get us out of this fix. Drastic cuts in government spending would only compound the crisis. State and local governments, for example, are shedding workers as we speak.

And by July 26th he still hadn’t come up with a solution and began his column with:

The pain coursing through American families is all too real and no one seems to know what to do about it.