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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
You can't have it both ways. You can't get all the money out the door yesterday to stimulate the economy AND also spend 6 months debating where every dollar goes.
Whether you like it or not, money spent anywhere in the economy does in fact stimulate the economy. If you gave direct tax rebates to consumers, alot of them would spend it on stupid shit too. That would still stimulate the economy.
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Why 6 months? Why not a week? There was no discussion or debate on the stimulus plan at all. In fact, everyone voted on it without even reading it. That's not defensible behavior for anyone in government... particularly after they went through the fiasco in changing directions with the TARP money which basically did absolutely nothing as banks just sat on it.
Money spent anywhere stimulates the economy? Thats the rationalization for funding everyone's pet projects?
If that was true, we could just spend our way to wealth and prosperity right? We should never stop spending.
Whether you like it or not... this spending comes with consequences. Thats why we don't just spend money to make ourselves successful.