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To: tejek who wrote (463350)3/12/2009 9:24:14 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576894
 
The global economy would not have come crashing down around our ears without the stimulus and bailout bills. Even if they where beneficial (and that's questionable in the short run, false in the long run), they wouldn't be a large enough factor to prevent world wide economic calamity, and they where for the most part not well targeted towards preventing calamity (at least not the stimulus).