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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (103830)	2/11/2009 1:12:41 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

The economists I heard talking said that what was important for the stimulus was getting the money out there fast in to all the states. So programs like rebuilding bridges, or schools- were important, not because they were going to be ongoing (once it is done it is done)- but because they got the money in to the economy fast, and they got the money to people who were probably unemployed and needed to spend money (on things like food and consumer goods), and it these people were relatively "cheap" labor, so you could give the money to a lot of different point sources.