Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.

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Author(s) Steven Pearlstein
Source The Washington Post
Date February 6, 2009
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020503413.html
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Quotes-start.png "Even if the entire sum were to be stolen by federal employees and spent entirely on fast cars, fancy homes, gambling junkets and fancy clothes, it would still be an $800 billion increase in the demand for goods and services -- a pretty good working definition for economic stimulus. The only question is whether spending it on other things would create more long-term value, which it almost certainly would." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act should be passed on the topic American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.