Economic Stimulus Parody
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February
2/13/2009:
Sinking economy: not funny – this graphic: funny!
With all the bickering taking place on the “Economic Stimulus Plan: A Disaster?” thread lately – - – why not have a little chuckle with this great graphic parody of where Government Bailout money might really get spent. From Mad Magazine (about the only publication that guarantees laughs for me these days!)
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February 20th 2009 - 16:14:55 |
matt – i’m not arguing the merits of the wetlands restoration directly. It may be that it doesn’t stimulate the economy at all in California. You may be correct. I’m just laughing at the way it was falsely catogorized as spending $30 million on mice. If you want to debate whether or not $30 million should be included for a wetlands restoration project in California, that’s one conversation, but the people pointing it out as a waste shouldn’t use lies to prove it is a waste.
Fact is – it’s money being spent on a project. That project will have employees – construction workers, planners, architects, etc – just like a bridge, tunnel, road, sewer, building, etc would. Now – maybe it doesn’t create many jobs. Maybe making improvements to a Cailfornia railroad or a road is $30 million spent better, but that’s not what I was making fun of.
I don’t know if spending $30 million on wetlands project adds/saves jobs.
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February 20th 2009 - 16:38:56 |
bradykp wrote:
I think you missed my point. Spending on stuff like this doesn’t belong in a stimulus bill. It belongs in a bill dealing w/ the environment.
As for the jobs it will create, creating jobs in an unproductive manner doesn’t stimulate the economy. It would be more productive to pay people to do nothing b/c at least then they could use their free time productively. Comprende?
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