Friday, February 06, 2009

Another 598,000 Reasons To Pass The Economic Stimulus Bill Without Delay

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Dear God! Even with Obama finally going on the attack against Republican insurgents, Washington is not dealing with the economic stimulus bill for what it is -- the key component in pushing back against a dire national emergency. Another 598,000 people lost their jobs last month with nearly 11 million out of work altogether, and that doesn't count the people who have given up.

A flawed stimulus bill is better than none at all. So pass the fricking thing!

Photograph by Agence France-Presse

1 comment:

Inspector Clouseau said...

I strongly suspect that neither side really knows what they're doing. The problem is simply too large, complex, and interconnected with economies of other nations, over which the US has no control. To fix most things in the universe, you have to get it to sit still at least for a short period of time. This is a dynamic situation. If we as a society actually knew what worked, and could establish a cause and effect relationship with any certainty, we would have done it by now. Don’t you think?