On 11/8/09 2:16 PM, nom=de=plume wrote:
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On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:33:50 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Are you afraid of the attribution? (Hint: google works)

I never heard of the guy.

One thing that strikes me is deficit spending only works if it
actually creates LONG TERM jobs for marginally qualified people.
Things like clunker employ a factory for a month, then what? That is
the classic "give a man a fish".

We better find something we can make here ... fast.


It's also about infrastructre renewal. This is what FDR did and it was
working. The clunker program worked in a short term way, but you're right,
we need more long-term projects. The stim plan does have provisions for
infrastructure spending, and the money is starting to arrive.



We could have the unemployed round up the obstructionist
Republicans/Conservatives and...

Naw. Too German...