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1/24/2013 11:50:01 PM
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Passing a jobs bill is bad for America? Adding funding to the flood insurance fund to help Sandy victims get back on their feet is bad for American?
Oh, you...
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Jobs bill? You mean the stimulus bill that didnt do anything. Where are the jobs? Oh right, they ended when the money ran out.
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The Stimulus Package did great things for the economy until the money from it ran out. You are the most ignorant conservative I've ever seen on these forums.
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What exactly did it do? I drove past signs on the highway all the time that said "Funded by the American Jobs and Recovery Act" and the site was half done and abandoned. I have yet to see any proof that it had some positive long term impact. We would have been better off giving that money to consumers to spend, or better yet, not spend it in the first place.
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recovery-JobLossGain.png]The stimulus package was introduced in February 2009, the blue portion of the chart.[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ARRA_Unemployment_Rate_Graph_2011-05.jpg]The pale blue line is what the unemployment rate would've done without the SP, the dark blue is with.[/url] That one is based on projections, because as you can see we're not that low by now but the margin of difference between the lines is the same, just transferred upward on the y-axis. [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/CBO_GDP_impact_of_ARRA_2009.png/692px-CBO_GDP_impact_of_ARRA_2009.png]The solid black line is a projection of what the GDP would've done without the SP. The top-most dotted black line is with it.[/url]
