pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): It’s like pulling off a Band-Aid. We can do it quick and get the pain over with, or we can torture ourselves with slow, steady, hair-ripping pulls that make us want to gouge our eyes out in pain./p pSince I first scraped my knee chasing the neighbor’s cat across the street dozens of years ago, I have been a fan of the get-it-over-fast strategy. Rip the stitches, dry the tears and move on. Dilly-dallying is for sissies and I’m no sissy. /p pBut the nitwits in Washington beg to differ./p pAfter the first round of trillion-dollar stimulus failed to ignite anything but tempers, Congress is hitting us with a slow, but steady stream of economy-boosting spending. They won’t call it#8230;/p