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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (10879)10/29/2009 9:05:53 PM
From: Mary Cluney1 Recommendation  Read Replies (4) of 42652
 
<<<So, then, if 124,000 is fictitious, how many clunker sales were there? >>>

Moody's said 60 percent were incremental, while General Motors estimated it was about 500,000.

<<<The potato farmers get to keep their farms for a while, but for how long?>>>

A lot depends on consumers keeping and getting additional jobs, banks start lending again, and consumers regaining confidence in the economy.

"Keynesian economics argues that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes and therefore advocates active policy responses by the public sector, including monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal policy actions by the government to stabilize output over the business cycle."
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