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I should know better than to engage here, but....

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Since he started he's proposed a stimulus, increased availability of small business loans (via the SBA), an infrastructure spending bank, and continued tax breaks (albeit only for the middle and working class). Now to me he should have done a lot more when he had a chance, but he's proposed a few "reasonable measures" at the least.

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Without harping on the meme, what would a genuine stimulus package have looked like to you?

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Your right that's not fair. He should mix taking responsibility for his own actions and failures with demonizing Alan Greenspan.

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Porkulus was a liberal spending project rather than a genuine stimulus package.

Well, actually 'liberal spending project' is the same thing as 'stimulus', carlhayden, though you are quite correct, the stimulus bill was so small that it couldn't have helped (or hurt) much.

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I should know better than to engage here, but....

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Since he started he's proposed a stimulus, increased availability of small business loans (via the SBA), an infrastructure spending bank, and continued tax breaks (albeit only for the middle and working class). Now to me he should have done a lot more when he had a chance, but he's proposed a few "reasonable measures" at the least.

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Without harping on the meme, what would a genuine stimulus package have looked like to you?

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Your right that's not fair. He should mix taking responsibility for his own actions and failures with demonizing Alan Greenspan.

When it was pending before Congress, I posted a table of contents, and analysis of Porkulus.  The bill was not a stimulus program, but rather a lot a spending for liberal programs.

A genuine stimulus package would have included much more money for infrastructure, particularly transportation, and a lot less for liberal social programs, for one example.

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A genuine stimulus package would have included much more money for infrastructure, particularly transportation, and a lot less for liberal social programs, for one example.

No, social programs are far more stimulative than infrastructure spending, Carlhaeden.