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To: Trumptown who wrote (398287)	12/8/2009 2:08:46 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 436258

I am not an economist, but I think while the R. and D. quarrel about tax cuts vs more gov. programs, net-net the result is the same, and, probably road construction projects will create more jobs than tax cuts at this time. The real problem is that we can't afford it. -ng- That said, maybe these IV-league dudes know more about this stuff than we do. Chit smells bad no matter what, kinda. -g-

To: Trumptown who wrote (398287)	12/8/2009 3:08:32 PM
From: NucTrader	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Fascism too far right. Marxism too far left. Some sort of socialism sounds like the baby bear's porridge. Certainly something to temper the destructiveness of unbridled capitalistic greed to the benefit of the greater good (as opposed to the good Wall Street investment banks and large international/multinational corporations based in this country). Read an interesting book review of an English economist back in the early 1900s (name slips me) who felt that any enterprise should be weighed for social value and economic value. Those in which the economic value outweighed the social value should be taxed. Those in which the social value outweighed the economic value (i.e. a recreational park) should be subsidized. I'm sure the posters on this thread could figure it out -g-