New Consensus: Stimulus Worked

[BodyProSite]

STIMULOUS WAS A JOKE PLAIN AND SIMPLE...  It was a tactic for the commie leader to flex him liberal commie muscle quickly after taking office thats about it. I mean come on it was passed in what? almost 72 hours, how much thought actually went into this???

[Soul Crusher]

I think you misunderstand the goal of the bill.

Incidentally, there was actually a good deal of infrastructure spending- most of it was in the form of repairs, not new construction. Earlier you asked why the new Tappan Zee couldn't have been built with stiim funds. If the plans for it were finished and ready to go, it would have been eligible.

How do you think the administration should have gone about creating long term permanent jobs in the private sector?

Nuclear Power Plants
Water Desalinazation Plants
Tax breaks to companies to bring back manfg plants
More Wi Fi access
Projects like the Tappan Zee or a third hudson crossing to ease the massive congestion.


Crap like that.  

[tonymctones]

The stimulus bill has ALWAYS been touted as a bill that would create jobs AND save them. If the number you are citing is anything like the rest of the numbers that have been popping up, then you are distorting what they actually mean. In most of the cases I've read about, it is not as simple as net loss net gain.

LOL but you take the administration at their word for the number of jobs saved or created? 

I agree its not as simple as a net gain or loss but it face it al this bill was full of pork it could have been much smaller and just as ineffective as it is now...

[Al Doggity]

Nuclear Power Plants
Water Desalinazation Plants
Tax breaks to companies to bring back manfg plants
More Wi Fi access
Projects like the Tappan Zee or a third hudson crossing to ease the massive congestion.


Crap like that.  

As I said, you misunderstood the purpose of the bill. "Crap like that" would have taken years to plan and implement. The stimulus bill was directed at projects that were ready to be implemented. It was meant to put money into the economy fast. 

[Al Doggity]

LOL but you take the administration at their word for the number of jobs saved or created? 

I agree its not as simple as a net gain or loss but it face it al this bill was full of pork it could have been much smaller and just as ineffective as it is now...

LOL Where did I do that?  I said the way you are interpreting the numbers was a distortion. LOL

[tonymctones]

LOL Where did I do that?  I said the way you are interpreting the numbers was a distortion. LOL

and how do you know they way the ppl in your article are interpreting the info isnt distorting

at least i give reason for my beliefs they dont...all they say is hey it saved some companies, doesnt say who, doesnt say how many jobs etc...

[George Whorewell]

Obviously, the stimulus has not worked-- nothing has been stimulated, no jobs have been saved, created or maintained.

Also, lets throw in the rampant fraud and corruption that the bill has created. The stimulus watch website that was supposed to outline all these "new" jobs has already been shown to have huge inaccuracies and outright falsehoods.

Among some of the insanely wasteful byproducts of the stimulus bill itself includes a pay out of 3 million dollars to a congressional district in Florida that doesn't exist.

I would say the stimulus bill, like everything else the administration has done, has been a complete and total dud.

[Hedgehog]

STIMULOUS WAS A JOKE PLAIN AND SIMPLE...  It was a tactic for the commie leader to flex him liberal commie muscle quickly after taking office thats about it. I mean come on it was passed in what? almost 72 hours, how much thought actually went into this???

How can someone be both communist and liberal at the same time? explain that to me. How do you work the communist dialectic into a liberal world view?