[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[DManA]

Statists love to talk about the multiplier effect of government spending. They refuse to acknowledge it works in the opposite direction when you lose all the good things that dollar you sucked out of the productive economy could have grown into.

[bray]

Well said Whiskers.

Pray for America

[raybbr]

In reality, when talking about govt. spending, we should be using the "divisor effect" instead. No dollar taken out of the economy and filtered through the govt. every multiplies but ALWAYS is divided up among the leech like bureaucracies that touch it. No one ever reports on this.

No dollar ever taken up by govt. and returned to the private sector comes back as a dollar - it comes back as a fraction of it. My guess would be about 3/5ths of a dollar comes back into the economy.

After this bill starts taking affect my guess is the fraction will be down to about 2/5ths.

[Tempest]

“Pork and Awe”, I like that. The whole bill is pretty much a carpet bombing of good and bad ideas isn’t it.

[Baltimore Republican]

BM

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grey_whiskers.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

My opinion: The "stimulus" is not only a political payoff, but also a doggy treat thrown to the masses to prepare them for the coming multi-trillion "bailout" for foreign investors.