http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/2009/05/stimulus-bust/ Exploring Scott County & the world Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/2009/05/stimulus-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Bill Wed, 13 May 2009 12:40:34 +0000 http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/?p=616#comment-263 Quirky - The point is he claimed it would be along the top curve (somewhere around 8% at this time) without the stimulus. You are saying that it might really have been 11 or 12 percent without the stimulus. If you are correct, then his team of economic geniuses were off by 40-50% in their projections. If they were correct, then the administrations plicies are actually making things worse. Either way, it does not fill me with hope. As Glen Reynolds says, the country is in the best of hands. Quirky - The point is he claimed it would be along the top curve (somewhere around 8% at this time) without the stimulus. You are saying that it might really have been 11 or 12 percent without the stimulus. If you are correct, then his team of economic geniuses were off by 40-50% in their projections. If they were correct, then the administrations plicies are actually making things worse. Either way, it does not fill me with hope. As Glen Reynolds says, the country is in the best of hands.

]]> http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/2009/05/stimulus-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Quirky Wed, 13 May 2009 01:03:56 +0000 http://tnhunting.com/cumberlands/?p=616#comment-261 You gotta give the stimulus time to work. God only knows how many jobs it might've saved already. Who is to say that the unemployment rate wouldn't be 11 or 12 percent right now if it had not been for the stimulus? You gotta give the stimulus time to work. God only knows how many jobs it might’ve saved already. Who is to say that the unemployment rate wouldn’t be 11 or 12 percent right now if it had not been for the stimulus?

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