krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/2/2009
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A correspondent raises an important point: there's widespread public confusion between the fiscal stimulus plan - which should, on its face, be very popular - and the bank bailouts, which are deeply (and understandably) unpopular. Spending on infrastructure commands broad support; rescuing ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/30/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Ron Brownstein writes (I think it's a temporary
link): To call the economic legislation now moving through...
Congress a stimulus bill obscures its full implications. The measure represents the most ambitious effort in decades to swell public spending ...
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The Point of the Stimulus
weeklystandard.com - 2/2/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
Republicans need to propose one since Congressional Democrats
haven't. by Matthew Continetti 02/09/2009, Volume 014, Issue 19...
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The Right Stimulus
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Hullabaloo —
... This is idiocy, and suggests one of two things: either most of the Beltway is trying to protect the assets of the rich, or they actually don't know the meaning of the word "stimulus." And we are seeing this kind of confusion ...
Randall Amster: Obama's Economic Paradox: Can You Have "Bailout" and "Stimulus" at the Same Time?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Beyond Republican bugaboos, however, there is a deeper problem lurking here. Democrats likewise have their own forked-tongue issues on economic affairs, having stood idly by as Bush & Co. looted the candy store, but more to the point is the rhetorical conundrum of simultaneously proposing backward-looking (i.e. "bailout") and forward-thinking (i.e. "stimulus") packages. As Paul Krugman observes, "the Obama administration seems to be ... dragging down its pro-worker stimulus plan by creating a linkage in people's minds to the outrageous bank bailout." While the language of " ...
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