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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did it go to stopping  the job loss without infrastructure
?  What other jobs were produced ? Why would you spend it on anything else? At least we get infrastructure !  What a bunch of lying idiots. No more money for them to waste. They are done.[/quote]From Wikipedia: "The Act included direct spending in infrastructure, education, health, and energy, federal tax incentives, and expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions."  I don't think the job problem was foreseen to be as bad as it turned out, so other aspects of the economy were addressed as well.

I think two points are important.  First that Krugman predicted that the amount of the stimulus was woefully inadequate and that Obama should have fought for more.  Second, that the only "cure" for joblessness the GOP was willing to discuss was cuts in taxes and spending, which are their cures for anything that comes along; their actions give me no reason to believe joblessness is anything more than a campaign issue for them.

I admit that I see the whole thing through liberal eyes, and I have no proof that a truly progressive solution would have worked.  But I certainly would deny that such a solution has been tried.[/quote]

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