A Cornell economist presents us with an iffy proposition:
MORE important, there are good reasons for believing that stimulus spending will make people’s future tax payments lower, not higher. Yes, government borrowing adds to the national debt. But if the stimulus also hastens the downturn’s end, it will accelerate the growth of future incomes and tax revenue. In that case, the net effect would be to reduce future taxes, compared with what they would have been without the stimulus. [emphasis mine]
Really, you’re blind and UnAmerican if you think that this orgy of spending’s not a very good idea.
Not really on topic, but I also want to thank Snark & Boobs and Moe Lane for noticing yesterday’s rant.
And while I’m on the subject of Moe Lane, “Signs“:
Now hey you, mister, can’t you read?
You’ve got to have a union card to get a seat.
You can’t ask questions, can’t you see
You ain’t supposed to be here?
I wouldn’t call you “blind” or “UnAmerican” if you were so uninformed that you called the bail-out and stimulus package an orgy of spending. I’d suspect you probably spent too much time reading genius narratives from weaselzipper and rubyslipper instead of informed information sources. Bad judgment, that’s all that I call that, which doesn’t make you a bad person upon itself, just a typical ill-informed American.
When you’re given to a goody-goody-good versus bad-evil-ugly binary view of politics then you’re inclined to speak incessant nonsense in defense of one and in opposition to the other side.
Who started the deficit spending as stimulus if-economics? Ronald Reagan did. And you, Dan, sell that cheap toady Reagan era Republican rhetoric like a Mexican pimps his youngest sister.
No Republican is a fiscal conservative. They’re rhetoric pimps, pony boys of deficit spending, debt orgy Johnnies. I harken back to the day I tried to explain to Maggie’s husband that the current stimulus packages tax cuts were counted as deficit spending. He replied he’d never consider a tax cut deficit spending, no matter! But that’s because he’s fuckin’ stupid, a gun queer waterhead and a dumb animal dollied up in military camo. Maybe an intellectual coward is a nicer tag, but I like to poke ‘em hicks hard.
The article you cite, Dan, refers to both sides, opponents and proponents, of stimulus spending. The NYT is crafty like that sometimes.
You’re like dog shit, whore.
Seek professional help.
Dan , can’t you ban his moronic ass?
As an asside, he tried to post over a PW again, and every monic comment was immediately removed.
Maybe that’s the way to go with the idiot.
I tried to post on PW, eh? Really, because that’s new news to me, fuckin’ putty-boi Semper Fi lying Daddy.
Maybe my PW sockpuppet said something witty, but let’s be honest, since it was actually one of you PW-slag-offs it couldn’t have been that witty.
Poor wittle P’brain, haunted in his head by my terrible words.
I have extraordinary power like that. I can cause discombobulation in your noggin!
Frankly, I can’t believe my name is still mentioned over there in the PW-poo-bowl. My stature was larger that I ever could have imagined. And now a thor sockpuppet is reigning terror on a message board I haven’t posted on in months, I’m, like, fuckin’ impressed with myself. Do yo think a sockpuppet of, say, Cleo could bewitch and stir the angry hicks the way my name can? I don’t think so. I am the eternal stir! This evil persona of which legends are made!
Bronze ‘em, cast ‘em stone, bath them with spot lights, the staggering hugeness of my dangling balls should be worshiped as immortal!
Loki – yes – he could be banned – but really… only a Lefty would do such a thing. Let’s face it: every time he posts he serves all of humanity – in the sense that he only says what the Obamatrons think. So, he is sort of a tell-tale. A reminder that Bush Derangement Syndrome has morphed into Obama Deep Throat Syndrome. And, as such, we shouldn’t be surprise that his words (Tohr’s) seem garbled and nonsensical.
I’m a freakin’ legend among right-wing freaks, what you got, player?
Nothin’!
I should be getting paid to feed their need for projection.
O!
As far as I know I created the O! I just started doing it and they became addicted to it. Now it’s universally symbolic, like me.
thor
is forever
in spirit
sans deed
That’s one nasty gag-reflex, Tohr – but practice makes perfect.
Yeah, you’re just like Glenn Beck’s hemorrhoids, boi.
what you got, player?
Am having bill for wedding cake.
O!bama, EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll