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Old 11-19-2009, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Danzig
the stimulus this spring was billed as absolutely necessary to keep unemployment from reaching 10%. it's reached and passed that. as far as jobs saved/created, even obama said that figuring those figures is an inexact science.
That's right. Would you have preferred doing nothing and we right now being in a deep depression? Unemployment 18-20%? It's obviously not black and white. There's not an economist I've seen that has said the stimulus hasn't helped, nor that it won't continue to help.
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