“Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.” YearsStillsProblemPoliticalPresidentLeaderExampleChangedAmountNeededProgramLaborUnionsSolveMassiveOne TimeCashGovernorsConsensusFundingStimulusMayorsCongressmanBusiness LeadersParalysisLabor UnionInfusion Author:Steve Kroft
“I do know enough about economics - and so do you - to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.” KnowsEnoughAmericaHouseWhiteEconomyStupidBrokenProgramEconomicsCriminalsInsaneBarackWhite HouseStimulusThugHorde Author:L. Neil Smith
“Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.” IfsNeedsRealEconomySeriousSucceedMajorsProgramTrainRateFinancialCreditSpendingConsumersImmenseRescueMomentumStimulusRecessions Author:Paul Krugman
“We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.” MayPlansProgramDollarsDebtRisingCollectivesDeficitStimulusAnnualsNational DebtHamstrings Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.” GovernmentProgramIncreaseSpendingReducingStimulus Author:Richard Wagner
“You have to be careful, because, in the [Donald] Trump stimulus package, there were two elements. One is the infrastructure investment program, which at this moment doesn't have the financing spelled out in any effective form.” TwoMomentsFormTrumpElementsProgramInvestmentCarefulBe CarefulInfrastructurePackagesStimulusFinancing Author:Judy Woodruff
“Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.” GovernmentQualityEconomyPlansHonestProgramBeing HonestAgendasQuality Of LifeStimulusEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:Alveda King
“Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.” MayDifferencesEconomyImpossiblePolicyFineLateProgramTasksArguingMaking A DifferenceToo LateEconomistSkepticalStimulusTuningFiscal PolicyFine Tuning Author:James Surowiecki