"Do I Feed the Kids or Pay the Utilities?"

``Intoxicated by the smell of Fed-created funny money and enthralled by visions of bonuses and bull markets, policymakers, punters and pundits have been getting excited about prospects for a post-recession change in consumer spending behavior. Something tells me, however, that the choices Americans are being faced with nowadays, as detailed in the following Huffington Post commentary, "The New Faces of Poverty," by the president of the Children's Defense Fund, are not exactly what the optimists had in mind.''