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Originally Posted by Danzig
prove it. prove we'd have been in a depression had that not been passed. my recollection of that bill being pushed was it was to keep unemployment from going past 10%, which it did anyway...in other words, it DIDN'T accomplish what they said it would. and why would adding mccains chief campaign economist somehow give that remark credence? because he's from 'the other side'? i bet i could find other economists who would disagree...but then, I'D be cherry picking....god knows no one else pulls bits out of articles to back their points.
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Not to mention the requirements that accompanied the stimlus money for the states that will begin to further bankrupt many of them starting next year. Or the fact that despite the idea that his foreign policy has been so swell there are still guys climbing on airplanes with bombs, Iran is getting closer to having nukes and seems to have sped up the process this year, The Palestinian issue is no better than it was a year ago, Somolia is still a disaster, Putin's tentacles have stretched further, Chavez is still doing his best to destabilize Central and South America and has been hosting Iran dignitaries, China has also cut some troubling deals for oil with Iran and along with Russia serve as their defender in the UN, Pakistan and India are still mortal enemies with nukes, Yemen has emerged as a new terror hotspot, North Korea is still nuclear and old Kim Jung-il is as wild and crazy as ever...
So what exactly was so good again?