blindman28: Dividends will save stocks from being trashed completely. There is no telling how high interest rates are going to climb. If a stock yields 2 percent, and interest rates climb higher, then that dividend won't help the stock. The more Congress spends, the higher interest rates will climb--period. (I predicted this would happen if the Democrats did a sweep. Saw this movie once before--in the 1960s. "It was called LBJ and the Great Society." Two thumbs down.