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...don’t believe it? Deal. This is our endpaper—NOT YOURS! We were asked to write it, and you are just going to have to live with it for at least 800 words...
...Well, he’d be cheaper to get. It’s not like he’s Bill Clinton or Obama. Plus, I would love to learn how to deal with failure...
...Just a Deal - a New Deal Obama hasn't yet released details of his plan, so the debate has so far focused on the overall dollar amount (liberals want more, conservatives less) and general makeup (liberals want fewer tax cuts, conservatives more) rather than specific strategies for priming the pump. But the clichés are true: God - or the devil - will be in the details...
Obama cannot expect to handpick every item that ends up in the stimulus. Even the New Deal required a deal. But the New Deal was also new. And it's folly to expect the same dysfunctional spending habits that got us into this mess...
...transfers are the fastest way to ship money out of the Treasury, but they don't provide stimulus if they don't get spent. That's what happened last year to a $168 billion stimulus package that relied on income tax rebates - remember when $168 billion was a big deal? - but foundered when many recipients hoarded the cash or paid down credit-card debt. It turns out that smart personal-finance decisions make for a lousy stimulus...