AntonToo
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The Pork Bill couldn't have stimulated anything. You can't stimulate the economy by concentrating on a few particular sectors of the economy, and the few bucks that most of us got in our paychecks by robbing Social Security. Trust me, I'm a working stiff myself, and the extra money was so small it was barely noticeable.
Now we arrive at straight dumb.
Your argument (and I see conservatives say it all the time) is that 870 billion dollars disappeared. YEP this argument is that magical, that silly.
Not a single economist would try to claim such nonsense. Nor was the money concentrated "in a few sectors", for example most americans have seen tax cuts from that bill directly in their paycheck. Also money tends to distribute through economy in secondary effects.
You build a road, you get paid, you spend, someone else gets paid etc. etc. etc.
Stimulus was not a free lunch - but conservatives are consistently unable to sanely talk about it's upsides and downsides, let alone sanely compare them.
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