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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (174010)10/21/2014 2:30:04 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 224756
 
>> I fear it's only a minority that recognizes "stimulus" as a scam.

Because they didn't feel the pain.

The $3,200 for every man, woman and child in the country was added to the bar tab; it didn't come out of their pockets.

Americans are oblivious to the debt and its consequences. If you ask the average adult in this country to write the number "one trillion", most of them would have no idea how to do so. It is a nebulous figure that is so extraordinarily big it has no meaning to them.

So, no, they don't recognize it as a scam. They don't know what they got for it but they have no idea what they gave up for it.