re: #457 garhighway

The real question is what would the numbers look like had the stimulus not been passed.

I remember Paul Krugman writing at the time that he thought it was too small, and I thought then that he was being alarmist.

No… the question is why are banks sitting on profits and not lending, why are employers sitting on profits, building up inventory and not hiring, why are people dropping out of 30 year long careers to work in retail and service jobs, which in turn are really taking jobs away from a up and coming younger work force who needs training in how to work at a job? Question is why does an administration pass laws that are bound and determined to take more money from it’s citizens at a time when those citizens have less money to give.