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Post by MacBeth on Feb 6, 2009 17:47:18 GMT -5
Everything you need to know in one simple chartThis is pretty excellent. It's a chart, created by Paul Rosenberg, that combines data from Moody's Economy.com and Dean Baker's Center for Economic Policy and Research. It shows the return on investment for different stimulus options. The takeaway? Food stamps, unemployment benefits, and infrastructure investment put the most money back into the economy for every dollar spent on them. Tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy do the least. (A payroll tax holiday, which is essentially a tax break for poor people, isn't so bad.) Job creation maps similarly. So when conservatives tell you that FDR's public investment programs made the depression worse and that we need to hold fast to the conservative economic principles that created the current mess, shoot them this link. Perhaps President Obama should use that snazzy new BlackBerry of his to email it to his Republican opponents in Congress. www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2009/02/12147_spending_vs_tax_cuts_as_stimulus.html
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oskar
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Post by oskar on Feb 6, 2009 19:01:42 GMT -5
Baloney.
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Post by MacBeth on Feb 7, 2009 6:37:26 GMT -5
I have not had the time to look into the sources for this to see if it is nonsense or not. I know it is making the rounds, but I was hoping someone else had looked into it.
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oskar
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Post by oskar on Feb 7, 2009 7:13:17 GMT -5
Not much need for any sources at all. Those "statistics" <ahem> are all speculation. How can anybody make a comparison between two programs that haven't happened? BTW, isn't Moody's one of those rating agencies that rated the derivatives that were poisoned by the sub-prime fiasco as AAA? Not a very good resource, I should think.
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Pax
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quod erat demonstrandum.
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Post by Pax on Feb 7, 2009 8:48:55 GMT -5
My feeling is that I wouldn't have the patience or the education to understand what's behind the statistics...
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Post by wayneinfl on Feb 7, 2009 9:33:18 GMT -5
"My feeling is that I wouldn't have the patience or the education to understand what's behind the statistics... "
The people who manufactured the statistics may not either.
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oskar
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Post by oskar on Feb 7, 2009 9:43:51 GMT -5
The people who manufactured the statistics may not either.
Bingo!
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