Although such powers would be constrained by our ability to meet the overall borrowing requirements and constraints of the state in which we work, it is essential that we are able to deploy them at this time.Yesterday John Swinney said in his budget speech:"Challenging economic times require a country to draw on all the mechanisms at its disposal to assist recovery."—Official Report, 4 February 2009; c 14652.We have only a few of the mechanisms that we require to assist the full recovery of Scotland—or, indeed, to run the country in normal times.I will offer a couple of examples that concern me and demonstrate the problem.