re: #111 Kosh’s Shadow
The problem is, when the stimulus ends, the economy will either decline or stop growing for a longer period, until the fundamentals change.
Distorting the economy only works as long as the distorting force is acting, and when it is released, it can snap back to where it would have been otherwise.
Stimulating the productive members of society - Private Enterprise - would have done much more than this scatter shot Stimulus package. Cash for clunkers was a temporary illusion. How about slashing taxes and getting out of the way?