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The Stimulus Didn't Work[Six Months After, We Can Look And See What Actually Happened]
The Wall Street Journal ^ | SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 | By JOHN F. COGAN, JOHN B. TAYLOR AND VOLKER WIELAND

Posted on 09/19/2009 5:08:14 AM PDT by Son House

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Next these economist should come out with a comparison of the 6 months after the Bush Tax Cuts, which should have been more, lower tax rates protect tax payers income from Congress, Presidents who are economic illiterates, ACORNs, and Czars.
1 posted on 09/19/2009 5:08:15 AM PDT by Son House
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To: Son House

Administration economists cited .....Kenyasian .......models


2 posted on 09/19/2009 5:10:12 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Son House

We KNEW the stimulus wouldn’t work BEFORE they passed it!

I am NO economist. I’m not even a businessman, but I KNOW that the ‘stimulus’ was nothing more than a PAYBACK to the many organizations that helped democrats get their power back.

Who REALLY thought the ‘stimulus’ bill actually would ‘stimulate’ ANYTHING?!? -maybe liberal appetites...but that’s all...


3 posted on 09/19/2009 5:13:20 AM PDT by J40000
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To: Son House

Conservatives have wisely quit spending money and are saving every cent they can for the future inflation that is sure to come as the dollar continues to collapse.
Until the msm recognizes this economic fact of life, they will continue to be puzzled by the failure of BO’s outrageous Porkulus Bill.


4 posted on 09/19/2009 5:13:31 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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Quit spending on consumables, but don’t forget to buy capital improvements if they are needed.


5 posted on 09/19/2009 5:19:21 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Son House

The only ‘shovel-ready’ jobs were the myriad pseudo-jobs available for the asking, for those who were ready to shovel the massive piles of bullsh*t that were being produced by this White House on a daily basis.


6 posted on 09/19/2009 5:22:00 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.)
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To: kittymyrib

If you believed that inflation is on the horizon, the last thing you’d want to do is save money. You need to turn your money into something real.


7 posted on 09/19/2009 5:24:32 AM PDT by freedomfiter2
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To: Son House

Did everyone look at the chart very very carefully?

The exact peak, the exact highest point in the chart measuring “personal consumption expenditures” is the exact time when Obama was NOMINATED for President by the DNC.

People who had a brain and who had a job could see it coming ———

and acted accordingly.

Gee, what a big surprise!!!

Americans fleeing from a O Communist future administration; hiding thier assts, shutting down, stopping thier spending their borrowing, their consuming.

THAT’S the cause of this “recession”; it didn’t just happen in a void, for no reson, it happened and is happening and will continue to happen as long as Obama remains in office.

No missile shield, no F-22 fighters for us or our allies -——— sure way to increase confidence in consumers and citizens in their future.

No mystery at all.

Just everyone too gutless to say it out loud.

Oh please Mr. Obama don’t taze me, don’t put me in with the other 25,000,000 Americans in your concentration camps that your SDS and Weather Underground buddies so desired to make in the 70s!!!!!!!!!

I promise to be a good little slave, a good little sheeple.

Not.

Here: see for yourself !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9peonVh26A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GrCHctYyWA


8 posted on 09/19/2009 5:24:53 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Son House

It didn’t work because it was never intended to work. Its purpose was to reward those who voted for the Marxist Messiah, not to stimulate the economy.


9 posted on 09/19/2009 5:24:57 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (whatever happens in politics is foreseen and therefore intended.)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009
That peak of spending was where everyone was going out to buy firearms.

There will be a recovery (it's happening very slowly) and what conservatives need to do is have an argument ready to deny the credit to Hussein. You know the Press will be patting him on the back.
Problem is, the people that will fall for this don't know what "Keynsian models" are and they won't read articles like this.

10 posted on 09/19/2009 5:32:53 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: freedomfiter2

Yep, my question, In a mutual fund, is the inflation of the stock price of companies that survive going to be enough to cover the companies that won’t exist thanks to Democrats?


11 posted on 09/19/2009 5:48:04 AM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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Problem is, the people that will fall for this don’t know what “Keynsian models” are and they won’t read articles like this.

point


12 posted on 09/19/2009 5:51:07 AM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: freedomfiter2
You need to turn your money into something real.

Not just something real - consumables are 'real' but lose value rather quickly. You need something that is physical, portable, tradable, relatively rare, and can act as a hedge against inflation.

13 posted on 09/19/2009 6:14:09 AM PDT by meyer (Do not go gentle into that good night - Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009

I almost missed that ;-)


14 posted on 09/19/2009 6:18:15 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Son House

While I have to admit that reading this article took me back to my undergrad days as an economics major (and made my hair hurt), they make a most persuasive case. I hope other more colorful writers and commentators will pick up on this. It is a story that needs to be told.


15 posted on 09/19/2009 6:18:37 AM PDT by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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To: Son House

The Bush tax cuts brought the economy back from the brink after 9/11. People quicky forget not only the attacks on our people and freedom, but also the devastation on our economy.


16 posted on 09/19/2009 6:20:30 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Son House

President zero is illiterate in more than just economics. We have elected a person who has NO real knowledge or understanding of civics, economics, history, or leadership.

Being incapable of leadership is why he has enlisted so many so-called czars to help him govern while he himself is off to photo-ops and presenting a happy face for his move to change the country.

I am amazed that Keynesian theory is debunked time after time and the left continues to swear by it each time it fails. Little Robert Reich among them, who proudly wears the Keynesian badge of failure.


17 posted on 09/19/2009 6:28:13 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Democrats: the law of unintended consequences in action.)
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The article shows this photo of some bums shopping...

The economy must be truly awful for people to have to wear filthy, worn-out rags like this. Riding the rails takes a terrible toll on clothes. I wish this young man could find his way to a shelter and get some new clothing so he doesn't freeze to death in the coming winter.

18 posted on 09/19/2009 6:30:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: meyer

Yes, consumables should be limited with or without inflation. Virtually any physical thing would be a hedge against inflation as long as other people would desire to own it. Gold and silver have worked well except in extreme situations.


19 posted on 09/19/2009 6:57:13 AM PDT by freedomfiter2
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To: Son House

This article is RACIST


20 posted on 09/19/2009 7:07:06 AM PDT by calico_thompson
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