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To: Sully- who wrote (73713)	9/2/2009 9:48:49 AM
From: Peter Dierks	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The logic of Porkulus spending was that government expenditures would jump start the economy. If a little is good then more would be better. Let us try this logic. If we wanted an ideal economy 100% of economic activity would be government and there would be no goods or services produced. Now that is obviously wrong, thus government should stick to the things it must do. The Constitution specifically lists the things that the federal government is allowed to do: Provide for a common defense; conduct a unified foreign policy; provide a common currency. The more roles government adds beyond the basic ones crowd out economic activity making the whole economy smaller and everyone poorer.