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Originally Posted by dogzilla
Obama's last attempt didn't work.
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President Obama's last attempt was like a chipmunk trying to turn over a hemi, but we've still managed to make progress. Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute admitted back in January that
the stimulus helped to boost the economy by 4%. So, actually, it did work. Whoever told you it didn't is a liar and a fiend.
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Originally Posted by dogzilla
So how much is enough? $1 trillion? $2 trillion? Why not go big and spend $10 trillion? That's sure to work, isn't it? Never mind that our great-great-great-great grandchildren will still be paying the price for that stupidity if the Chinese don't foreclose on us first.
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Economists are saying
we need a second stimulus, an investment that will pay off big time in the long-run. Do you understand the concept of investment? It's not the government writing a check and getting nothing in return, it's about saving a dying economy and perhaps saving our crumbling infrastructure in the process. And don't give me that "future generations" line. It was Republicans that spent us into this stupid mess, and I didn't hear a peep from the right while it was happening. Perhaps the drum beat to two expensive, unnecessary, and wasteful wars was too loud?
New rule: you don't get to call yourself a fiscal conservative if you ever supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts, or the prescription drug bill.