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To: Alighieri who wrote (623477)	8/8/2011 4:04:13 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583682

How would you dismiss the trillions wasted on TARP that didn't go to TARP and the two stimuli that didn't create any jobs? So raising taxes and throwing more money away is the solution? No, the politicians have demonstrated they cannot be responsible with our money, I'll be damned if I'm going to give them more to pass out on bullshit.

To: Alighieri who wrote (623477)	8/8/2011 4:26:48 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583682

>> .the point was that republicans are rigidly hanging on to an austerity stance only when the country needs critical investments as well Surely, you must understand by now that yours is only one view, and that given the failure of the stimulus to have even the slightest positive effect, it is time to consider that your view might just be 180 degrees wrong, no? Has it ever occurred to you, even for a moment, that just maybe government spending is the wrong way to approach this problem? After all, we've never seen it work. Isn't it time to at least consider the possibility that the theory, the concept, is wrong? If you keep making the same mistakes over and over, it is it any surprise if the result is the same old crap?

To: Alighieri who wrote (623477)	8/8/2011 6:30:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583682

Al, > when the country needs critical investments as well You mean "stimulus" because there are no "critical investments" to be made. Unless of course you consider extending unemployment benefits to be a "critical investment." Let's face it. Stimulus isn't working as intended. 2011 Q1 GDP growth was revised downward to 0.6% recently. That says a lot when government doesn't even have 20/20 hindsight. Of course, your answer is the same as Krugman's. We need more stimulus. Only this time you now have to pay for it with tax increases. (Or just let the Bush tax cuts expire and blame the other side like you always do.) That's precisely what "tax-n-spend" is all about. And if that's your starting point for negotiations, then you are just as extreme as the Tea Party, the only difference being that your guy is in the White House. Tenchusatsu