OT: Money???

That's why the US economy is growing at 2% per year, rather than shrinking at a rate of 6% per year, as it did in the last quarter of 2008, and for four years after the 1929 Crash.

You've finally got the point where the stimulus can start to be tapered off.

Yes, it's simple thievery. (Bill likes to spend OPM, but ignore him. He thinks government spending creates jobs.) ) OK - 400 million an hour, or about 10 billion a day. That's close to the entire Venture Capital budget on new startups. Yes, it's unsustainable, and it's easy to imagine a collapse. Then people on retirement pay will be washing car windows.

Sounds like we should import some more illegal aliens to boost the economy. Oh, wait maybe I have that wrong. Mikek

You're missing the point, and that is most of this spending is a waste.

ut $200 million that it doesn't have.

Borrowing is theft?

I leave other poeople's money severely alone.

Correctly. Not as many as you need, and not as many as you'd get if. the st imulus spending was better directed.

It may well be unsustainable. It's only intended to persist until the econo my is running close to capacity and has resumed expanding at about 3% per y ear, which should be real soon now ... It's not supposed to be sustained, e xcept by right-wing nitwits, who seem to feel free to suppose anything that make their rhetoric more florid.

Haitic finds it easy to imagine a collapse because his imagination is large ly unencumbered with real world facts. The fact he think he knows mostly ar en't correct, and he seems to have zero capacity to learn new facts when th e old ones have been shown to be in error.

They'll be able to buy enough food to sustain the walk down to the traffic lights? And the people whose car windows they might wash will have enough m oney to buy petrol to get their cars to the same traffic lights, let alone enough extra to throw it away on mendicants?

Well, then why do you not want to spend ten thousand dollars a day of money you obviously do not have? Call it financial stimulus to make the sheeple (including you) happy.

But..too many people, not enough windows (not even M$ can help there).

Not a bad idea - - would need to print more worthless money to support them.

...and waste has repercussions that are not exactly good, to say the least.

Assuming your numbers are correct, if they stopped that, the US GDP would immediately drop by 10%, to levels last seen almost a decade ago. What would happen *after* that might well be good, but it would probably be politically fatal to whoever did it.

--sp