The Stimulus Is A Failure

[KrazyHorse]

I don't understand why you're complaining about splitting 1000$ a month, Jon. I was spending 400-500 myself when living with roomies.

[Drake Tungsten]

I don't understand why you're complaining about splitting 1000$ a month, Jon.

No kidding. I was happy to get my rent down to $725 a month with three roommates, which is ridiculously cheap for Manhattan. Was paying $850 a month before that.

[DaShi]

Drake, you're getting robbed. I was at $730 a month with one roomie in a pretty swank place in Washington Heights.

[Kuciwalker]

He had better not be paying 2000$ a month for a 2 bedroom. I'm paying 1500 for a 2 bed, two bath with all the amenities in a nice neighbourhood (with an included off-street parking spot) in the middle of a city.

Yes, but it's in Baltimore.

[KrazyHorse]

Top-end Baltimore housing prices are higher than those in newport news, as far as I know.

[Dinner]

The reality is the stimulus is working as intended but the global economy is much worse then previously thought. The world bank just about doubled how much the global economy is projected to contract this year. There is only so much one nation can do faced with such a global problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8095702.stm

That said just about all the economists said the stimulus package was to small and filled with to many tax breaks which were unlikely to actually stimulate new demand. We should all remember exactly who was fighting to make the package as small and ineffective as possible because those people really did hurt our nation's economy that day.

[Drake Tungsten]

The reality is the stimulus is working as intended but the global economy is much worse then previously thought.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Why the laughter Drake? The stimulus is indeed working as intended. Your mistake is thinking it was designed to stimulate the economy.

[Zkribbler]

Drake is just faking the laughter. Oerdin just skewered Drake's argument with a citation to a news source with an unimpeachable reputation. Drake has no response. So Drake has to pretend it means nothing.

[zakubandit]

Everyone fell onto the bandwagon with BO's charismatic speeches about the economic reform. He was such a great speaker with that teleprompter set up to give him words written by his liberal puppetmasters, that the masses fell right under the spell. What the masses failed to do, and alot are realizing it now, is to actually LOOK at the guy and see him for what he is. He was elected to he senate in 2003, and then immediately started his campaign for presidency. So when he was in the senate, he was never actually there and his vote records even say that. So when he says he has this splendid reform plan that WILL work and will do this and that.....if the masses actually LOOKED at what he was talking about and what he knows about they could have seen that this package had some brown smears on it still, because he just pulled it out of his own a** and the a**** of his partners in crime. It held no merit except that it would do no good at all, that it would blow up in the peoples faces, and would assist the gov't in gaining more control over private business....*cough* socialist *cough*. So when BO supporters argue that he isnt socialist you get this. Liberalism is a nice way of saying socialism, more government control is socialism, government having its hands in how businesses conduct themselves is contrary to the laisez-faire that we have in the republic and is socialist, liberal=socialist....there is no denying that, its been like that since the founding of the terms. So BO IS a socialist pushing socialist ideals; universal healthcare, big gov't, etc. But the point is, is it really a surprise that this guy who has about as much experience in governing as I do in controlled avalanches, which is none. Lawyer to legislature to senator to campaign street....when did he ever learn to govern? When did he ever learn economics? Budgeting *hes a millionaire*? So on and so forth. He is a failure.

[Drake Tungsten]

Drake is just faking the laughter. Oerdin just skewered Drake's argument with a citation to a news source with an unimpeachable reputation. Drake has no response. So Drake has to pretend it means nothing.

That BBC link in no way proves Oerdin's theory, which makes sense since it is impossible to prove. You, sir, are a moron.

[Dinner]

I'm a liar and a moron.

Yes.

[Dinner]

Drake is just faking the laughter. Oerdin just skewered Drake's argument with a citation to a news source with an unimpeachable reputation. Drake has no response. So Drake has to pretend it means nothing.

That's what he always does.

[DinoDoc]

The reality is the stimulus is working as intended ...

Failiure was intended from the start? To what end?

[SlowwHand]

To what end? Blowing billions of bucks that his grandchildren can worry about.