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To: Kaslin
"...where a dollar spent by government yields more than a dollar in economic activity. It doesn't, of course — as economists from Robert Barro at Harvard to John Taylor at Stanford have shown. "

That's a real problem that will be tough to fix.

2 posted on 05/21/2012 5:22:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

That’s a real problem that will be tough to fix.

That is in the nature of a self correcting problem.
That doesn’t mean it won’t be UGLY when it does.


8 posted on 05/21/2012 5:37:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Paladin2

Lets see...

Take $1.00 out of productive sectors of the economy

Spend 70 cents on bureaucracy...

Put 30 cents back into unproductive parts of the economy

and call it “stimulus”


10 posted on 05/21/2012 5:44:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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