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Originally Posted by joshgirls
its clear you are preoccupied with my right wing slant & not with what i am saying.
i'm not defending 8 years, not shilling for tax cuts for the wealthy.
No, spending money on "anything" does not "all" stimulate the economy. There are different multiplier effects. The wealth created by private sector spending is much greater than spending done by the government. You can find this in any college economics text that discusses public versus private allocations of wealth. So a stimulus bill that cuts checks to all consumers will have a much greater effect on economic growth than checks cut to a handful of corporations in bed with the government.
Anyway nothing you said refutes my point. There is no excuse for spending $600K on stickers. This should be a non partisan concept.
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A dollar spent is a dollar spent, period.
Please show me this college text that says otherwise.
Should be easy to find since you say it can be found in "any college economics text"
People get into this public vs private thing as if they are entities with their own minds. It's just a group of people making decisions. The idea that the average person working for a private company is X times smarter than a person working for the government is ludicrous.