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To: Girlene
-- dollars for dishwashers (I think he made that one up) ... --

I think there was a federal program that gave consumers rebates for buying "green" appliances. I don't think it had the same "you have to consign your old (clunker) appliance to the trash" clause that cash for clunkers had.

-- the entire range of stimulus packages simply have not worked. --

They have a short term stimulus effect, at the expense of future commercial activity.

89 posted on 07/31/2011 7:01:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
"They [stimulus packages] have a short term stimulus effect.

I think you're even overly generous in this faint praise. They may succeed in a temporary increase in sales, or jobs, or what ever they stimulate, but they generally have NO effect on 'stimulating' the economy, and in fact, quickly help slow it down.

343 posted on 07/31/2011 5:43:26 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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