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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: SGJ who wrote (58282)1/29/2009 11:34:02 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 224757
 
Unemployment benefits and food stamps are such useful stimulus tools that budget analysts refer to them as “automatic stabilizers.”

They are built into the system, allowing money to flow quickly to people who need it and likely to spend it.

nytimes.com