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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10827)	10/28/2009 12:04:07 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<At best it was a short term high, kind of like stopping at a bar for a few drinks to drown your sorrow and find you could have gotten a better return on that money later.>>> No one expected that the CfC program was going to get the world out of a depression. They spent $3B and targetted consumers with deep pockets but short arms to dig deep enough to spend $21B . These were not people spending money they didn't have. They didn't try to leverage their money. In other words they did not binge and were not throwing money around for fun. That is what you call a stimulus when a stimulus was needed. These