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To: dalight
This is not obvious as you are making it out to be, in fact, it is plain counter intuitive, and calls into question many deeply accepted ideas about the multiplier effect of transactions in a local economy.

Yes, and no. As a businessman, I have known it for years; there is nothing unanticipated, surprising, or unexpected about this conclusion. I cut back in Bush's last year because of his wasteful spending, and I've cut back far more since the community organizer occupied our White House. I moved out of one area due to the pork coming to that district - I prefer a community that works for a living to one that depends on welfare (even corporate welfare) for completely practical reasons and not just based on values. The theorists in academia are stumped, but those of us in the real world have been on the receiving end and alreay learned this.

11 posted on 05/27/2010 9:12:59 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Pollster1
I prefer a community that works for a living to one that depends on welfare (even corporate welfare) for completely practical reasons and not just based on values.

So you are saying that because GE gets a big government contract in an area, you move a working business out? Come on.. tell me more lies.

If you really do this, it is in response to declining sales. But, what is the cause of the decline. We are not talking about people all of the sudden being on the dole because Rayathon gets a contract to build missiles.

Your reasons for cutting back in 2008 through today, uh.. have more to do with an economy that is tanking generally rather than the pork barrel policies of your congressman. Get real. Now this may have been a good move.. but you will have to dig deeper to explain a why.

13 posted on 05/27/2010 9:19:21 AM PDT by dalight
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