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economists of every ideological stripe agree that government investments are the only way to get our economy moving again and make us competitive for the long term.

A complete and utter LIE:

Economists slam Barack Obama's stimulus package

The line from Barack Obama and Joe Biden is that all economists agree with a stimulus package to expand government spending. So they won't have been happy to see a full page advertisement in (January 28's) New York Times disagreeing, signed by around 200 academic economists, including three Nobel prize-winners.

(T)he economists who signed the advert, funded by the Cato Institute in Washington DC, say that: "we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s."


28 posted on 01/29/2009 8:07:45 AM PST by Constitution Day (Big Brotha Is Watching You)
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To: Constitution Day

“economists of every ideological stripe agree that government investments are the only way to get our economy moving again and make us competitive for the long term.”

A complete and utter LIE:

Talking points. A financial crisis, and this woman offers us talking points.


297 posted on 01/29/2009 7:41:52 PM PST by MrLuigi (corruption)
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