re: #291 sattv4u2

Bad analogy

seeds and fertilizer are NECESSITIES to running the ‘farm’

An HDTV isn’t

When consumer demand contracts, as in a severe recession bordering on depression, government is the spender of last resort to keep any money circulating at all — otherwise the economy contracts even further.

The stimulus package was 1/3 tax cuts (a compromise with Republicans, in hopes that some of them might vote for the package); there were block grants to states and cities so they wouldn’t have to lay off cops and teachers; and there’s roadworks and building projects that Republicans who voted against the bill and railed against it show up to for photo ops and claim they brought this to the district. Oh, and the unemployment extensions.

Exactly which part of the stimulus spending do you think was unnecessary or wasteful?