Originally Posted by Bill8

You know, low emissions and clean coal burning is so incredibly important for the future that it could by itself literally save our american civilization.

So, 2 billion is cheap for R&D that might bring us closer to working clean coal plants. Yes, that plant had it's problems, but we learned a lot from that failure.

Depending on the numbers you wnat to use, and how you do future accounting, we spend more than 2 billion a week on our wars.

http://armscontrolcenter.org/policy/...ing_burn_rate/

All our coal plants are aging and obsolete, and the coal infrastucture has to be rebuilt in the next 50 years. Coal is teh one fossil carbon that we have in abundance. That 2 billion spent now could have saved us trillions in the future.

And saved us from the insecurity and economic drain of buying oil from the sovereigns, and funding islam.

Not that you care.

Originally Posted by wig

Vend, you started this thread and you are already conflating "bailout" and "stimulus".

There is no doubt that the US economy and most of the worlds economies would have crashed without the "bailout". That's where your OP started.

I doubt it would have crashed without the "stimulus", but that is a different story and debate.


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