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GOP Leaders Urge Bernanke to Keep Unemployment High

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chunkymonkey9/21/2011 1:31:28 pm PDT

re: #164 engineer dog

no, that’s not what i meant

Seems to me then, that the government should take a two-pronged approach:

1. Send out checks via printed or borrowed money to all individuals who need it, say making less than $75k / year. The less you make, the more you should get.

2. Spend money on as many useful things as possible. Leave no pothole unfilled, no bridge with rust, no hospital without plenty of beds, and no farmer’s field without a wind turbine.

Because this money has a stimulating effect on the economy, this can’t possibly go wrong, and all of us Americans will benefit. Why is it so hard to get this done when the solution is so obvious?