Comments on: It Gets a Little Preachy But There Are Cool Trivia Facts Toward the End http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/2009/01/31/it-gets-a-little-preachy-but-there-are-cool-trivia-facts-toward-the-end/ Political Impressions Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:06:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Devin http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/2009/01/31/it-gets-a-little-preachy-but-there-are-cool-trivia-facts-toward-the-end/#comment-1976 Devin Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:35:26 +0000 http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/?p=295#comment-1976 Well, all the money for the states can be spent (and was spent) yesterday. There should be more infrastructure spending, but the public transpo stuff in there is good. There are some unnecessary tax cuts, but I can't say that is a shocker. And they will add and remove a lot once it goes to conference committee. I would say it's not nearly enough, but there are enough good things that it certainly is better to pass it. We will be back at this, at some point, regardless of whether it passes the senate or not. Summers' guidelines seem fine, but I don't much care for him, and I think Brooks is out to lunch when it comes to economics. Well, all the money for the states can be spent (and was spent) yesterday. There should be more infrastructure spending, but the public transpo stuff in there is good. There are some unnecessary tax cuts, but I can’t say that is a shocker. And they will add and remove a lot once it goes to conference committee.

I would say it’s not nearly enough, but there are enough good things that it certainly is better to pass it. We will be back at this, at some point, regardless of whether it passes the senate or not. Summers’ guidelines seem fine, but I don’t much care for him, and I think Brooks is out to lunch when it comes to economics.

]]> By: Barry Bussewitz http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/2009/01/31/it-gets-a-little-preachy-but-there-are-cool-trivia-facts-toward-the-end/#comment-1975 Barry Bussewitz Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:22:47 +0000 http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/?p=295#comment-1975 David Brooks' column was in the Jan. 29 NYT. I tried to post the link but it didn't show up. David Brooks’ column was in the Jan. 29 NYT. I tried to post the link but it didn’t show up.

]]> By: Barry Bussewitz http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/2009/01/31/it-gets-a-little-preachy-but-there-are-cool-trivia-facts-toward-the-end/#comment-1974 Barry Bussewitz Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:21:40 +0000 http://fittoprint.offeveryday.com/?p=295#comment-1974 David Brooks says that the House-passed-stimulus fails to meet Larry Summers three guidelines of being timely (almost immediate for all of it); targeted (to low- and middle-income people); and temporary: "Stimulus measures should not raise the deficits 'beyond a short horizon of a year or at most two.'” This gives me pause that the Republicans may have more solid reasoning behind their whines than I wish they did. FTP's analysis? David Brooks says that the House-passed-stimulus fails to meet Larry Summers three guidelines of being timely (almost immediate for all of it); targeted (to low- and middle-income people); and temporary: “Stimulus measures should not raise the deficits ‘beyond a short horizon of a year or at most two.’”

This gives me pause that the Republicans may have more solid reasoning behind their whines than I wish they did. FTP’s analysis?

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