CNN: Economists: The stimulus didn't help - Polidicks

Well, duh. Throwing money at a problem never works. It's not like this is the first stimulus program in America's history, those one's didn't do much either.

[QUOTE=Luxo;21599439]Well, duh. Throwing money at a problem never works. It's not like this is the first stimulus program in America's history, those one's didn't do much either.[/QUOTE] If you're saying the New Deal didn't help, you're deluded.

[QUOTE=Luxo;21599439]Well, duh. Throwing money at a problem never works. It's not like this is the first stimulus program in America's history, those one's didn't do much either.[/QUOTE] Republicans have been reviled during and after the Depression. Before the Depression they kept their hands off of huge businesses 'prospering' during the 1920's and kept regulations practically non-existent; one of the many, many factors that contributed to the downfall of the Economy.

[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21599552]If you're saying the New Deal didn't help, you're deluded.[/QUOTE] It's effect where existent, but minimal, economically speaking. [editline]09:40PM[/editline] [QUOTE=CabooseRvB;21599612]That's like saying Hoover did more than Roosevelt during the Depression.[/QUOTE] Not really.

[QUOTE=Luxo;21599662]It's effect where existent, but minimal.[/QUOTE] The impacts of the new deal went beyond money.

I don't believe it helped

[QUOTE=Dr Pepper;21599686]I don't believe it helped[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Luxo;21599662]It's effect where existent, but minimal. [editline]09:40PM[/editline] Not really.[/QUOTE] You guys are the second type.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599685]The impacts of the new deal went beyond money.[/QUOTE] Yes, hence why I edited my post.

[QUOTE=Luxo;21599728]Yes, hence why I edited my post.[/QUOTE] Well not everything revolves around money.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599760]Well not everything revolves around money.[/QUOTE] Yes.

I see your CNN, and raise you Businessweek. [img]http://i43.tinypic.com/2u8w5sm.jpg[/img] :smug: [editline]00:00[/editline] [B]Business[/B]week.

Ok so the New Deal did help, tremendously. [editline]06:47PM[/editline] @Luxo

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599835]Ok so the New Deal did help, tremendously. [editline]06:47PM[/editline] @Luxo[/QUOTE] It helped American infrastructure.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599835]Ok so the New Deal did help, tremendously. [editline]06:47PM[/editline] @Luxo[/QUOTE] No it didn't, since any government spending (only by a Democrat) is bad. /s

[QUOTE=Luxo;21599864]It helped American infrastructure.[/QUOTE] Think socially. What do people do if they are starving and jobless?

Because the guiding hand of the free market actually does anything good.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599908]Think socially. What do people do if they are starving and jobless?[/QUOTE] Apply for unemployment? Thats what my dad has been doing.

[QUOTE=fenwick;21599834]I see your CNN, and raise you Businessweek. [img]http://i43.tinypic.com/2u8w5sm.jpg[/img] :smug: [editline]00:00[/editline] [B]Business[/B]week.[/QUOTE] I fucking hate buzzwords.

Welp, the unemployment hasn't changed so I believe that the stimulus hasn't done very much at all other than making sure the most wealthiest of corporations didn't lose any more money. It's a fucking shame.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599908]Think socially. What do people do if they are starving and jobless?[/QUOTE] It helped [i]some[/i] people. [QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21599869]No it didn't, since any government spending (only by a Democrat) is bad. /s[/QUOTE] Go to see you listen so well.

[QUOTE=davidofmk771;21599945]Apply for unemployment? Thats what my dad has been doing.[/QUOTE] That didn't exist in the Great Depression. [editline]06:57PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Luxo;21599966][QUOTE=Lambeth;21599908]Think socially. What do people do if they are starving and jobless?[/QUOTE] It helped [i]some[/i] people.[/QUOTE] It helped everyone who wasn't big business or old money.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599994]That didn't exist in the Great Depression.[/QUOTE] Oh sorry I didn't understand the context carry on.

If you look at Canada, who didn't have anything quite like the New Deal, you'll notice they came to the point where they thought revolution was the only thing they could do.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599994]That didn't exist in the Great Depression. [editline]06:57PM[/editline] It helped everyone who wasn't big business or old money.[/QUOTE] It provided a finite amount of short term jobs. That doesn't help everyone.

See also: On-to-Ottawa Trek

[QUOTE=Luxo;21600082]It provided a finite amount of short term jobs. That doesn't help everyone.[/QUOTE] It helped a lot of people, that's for sure. And when Roosevelt scaled back the WPA, CCC, TVA, et al. in 1937, it led to a two-year recession, retarding the growth that had occurred over the past 4 years.

[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21600100]It helped a lot of people, that's for sure. And when Roosevelt scaled back the WPA, CCC, TVA, et al. in 1937, it led to a two-year recession, retarding the growth that had occurred over the past 4 years.[/QUOTE] Nice wikipedia search.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;21599951]I fucking hate buzzwords.[/QUOTE] God help us if they ever make a all-encompassing book about Obama. None will stand before the Obamanamicon

[QUOTE=Luxo;21600124]Nice wikipedia search.[/QUOTE] No, I just happen to know a thing or two (hundred) about US history.

[QUOTE=Luxo;21599966]It helped [i]some[/i] people.[/QUOTE] Read up on history. The CCC helped the unemployed to work for public communities by planting trees, parks, and roads. They even employed artists ranging from painters and musicians to keep the public entertained and in good spirit. Roosevelt's signing of the TVA Act helped bring electricity and basic appliances to farmers. Projects such as the Grand Coulee Dam helped employ more Americans into getting some form of a job. Roosevelt managed to regulate banks and help keep an eye on the ones that could actually hold peoples' savings and actually gave many confidence to trust their savings inside the bank vaults. Social Security, the FDIC, and NRA helped. Don't give me flak about that only helped SOME people.