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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Wow! The country encounters maybe the worst financial crisis in history. Then following a couple of months of debate among the politicos, we come up with a "stimulus" plan to try to re-start the economy. Now, only 5-6 months later, we're bitching because it isn't working.
Are you kidding? We'll be lucky to get the economy to turn into positive growth by the end of 2010, certainly not the end of 2009. It isn't really possible--in my opinion anyway--under this President with his plans, nor would it have been under any other President with a different set of plans.
All we're proving here is that Americans really do expect instantaneous gratification.
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VK I believe you're wrong on this. I remember Obama speaking at Caterpillar I believe. He told the workers there would be NO layoffs if this Stimulus bill was passed immediately. The CEO of the company said regardless they would have layoffs. The Bill passed and they had layoffs within a few weeks. It was sold to us with having immediate results. NOT
