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Originally Posted by joshgirls
wrong. you make assumptions about my thinking. if the stimulus was cutting checks to consumers, i would support it. But it only sends money to whatever governments want to spend it on. & guess what - some states are finding they don't have any urgent need for the money, so they put it into 10 cent stickers on police cars. Are you so angry at my politics you need to defend $600 grand to spend on stickers? Its not a red herring. its an example that the money is not going to stimulate the economy, because its being directed at things that will not stimulate the economy.
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What you fail to understand is that spending money on ANYTHING stimulates the economy.
Just because you don't like what it's being spent on, doesn't make it less stimulative.
If we cut checks to people and they spent the money going to a Star Trek convention or on Fleshlights, I would think that's a fucking waste, because it's not what I would spend it on....but that doesn't mean it didn't stimulate the economy.
This is what people (read: republicans) do once they've lost the overall argument on principle...they want to argue over minutiae because that's the only argument they can win.
Somehow I don't think the American public is going to fall for the "let's cut taxes for the rich because it'll help the economy" thing again....but you can get them riled up about 600K on stickers, so that's what you gotta do to stay relevant.
