That should not be welfare handouts, but as Fergie says used to save jobs of public employees. But those sorts of simple reforms don’t generally appeal to the corporate execs who control the demopublicans–change will probably have to wait until unionists and communists are marching in the streets (with the tea baggers a few blocks away flying swazis)–that’s how the dialectic works.

Also, if stimulating economies was this easy why not have the Gov spend 10 trillion

Ferguson would have us continue this policy. Krugman
would have us raise demand.An increase in demand will result
in an increase in supply, not the other way around.

Saving the jobs of police and teachers and putting 1/2 the
unemployed back to work would raise tax collection and
start a virtuous cycle of economic growth. That tax collection would pay back the stimulous in 2 to 3 years.

Besides, Duck, given your own stated secular non-belief system (and the NWs’ gang, except when B-ron’s at church), what is ethics anyway?? Strike while the iron’s hot, survival of the fittest, etc. Or merely utiltarian….ie whatever policy economic or political is voted in, subject to change, whim, subjective desire, etc

Warren Buffett’s just very successful economic predator as it were, given secular-Darwinian premises (and many conservatives and robber barons made use of Darwin’s ideas…including B-ron’s hero Winston Churchill, occasional supporter of eugenics).

In other words, the NWs blog is not about taking on capitalist excess, but sort of a…ruse, a daily deception. Have people, at least gullible liberals, believe you are “one of them”, attacking the greedy and powerful, whilst keeping your racket runnin.’ Sort of La Cosa Nostra tactics (tho’ Max’s gang hardly as classy–or successful– as LCN).

Also note that the little factoid-chart (assuming it’s accurate…) spammed in by Byro shows that Bill Clinton was the best republican of the last few administrations, economically speaking (a point overlooked by the NWs homies).