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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (712560)4/30/2013 11:50:51 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1575453
 
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Z, most of that spending went toward saving the budgets of state governments who should already be paying for all of this. Of course, state governments can't print money like the federal government can.

>Only a small fraction of "stimulus" represented new spending.

Keeping existing jobs is as important, if not more important, than creating new ones. Do you disagree? Or is it better to let teachers and firefighters go and hire new ones?

>Face it, it's a giant political slush fund. Just like the money for tanks that the army doesn't need.

No, it isn't. What you just described is not a "slush fund." It's a backstop.

-Z
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