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To: Metacomet who wrote (94311)	2/16/2009 7:10:37 PM
From: Broken_Clock	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government, they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of an advance auction of the sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken

To: Metacomet who wrote (94311)	2/24/2009 12:30:52 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 116555

If the key to prosperity was employment we could just pay people to dig holes, and pay other people to fill them in. The key to prosperity is productive work, that produces something that people want or need. as Clinton proved, as contrasted with the trickle down wet dream of GOP dogma Clinton proved that a moderate sized tax increase, in the context of many other positive things going on in the economy, doesn't have to result in a disaster, and you can even have healthy economic growth in such a situation. He didn't prove much more than that, and its doubtful if that was even something that needed proving. stimulus of necessity has to involve spending Stimulus is a somewhat questionable idea in the first place, but to the extent its done it doesn't have to involve any increase in spending, it can be done by spending, by tax cuts, or by a combination.