People are not spending because they are scared out of their minds about the economy. And what is the President doing about it? Making it worse! The Democratic strategy right now is to scare the public into accepting whatever they want to do.
Scare tactics worked with the TARP (partly because the very real possibility of the banking system failing), but the execution of the TARP was such a screwed up mess that the public is now highly skeptical of whether Congress will help or just piss away a lot of money. Support for the stimulus is dropping as people see the pork-fest for what it really is. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > The abnormal measures we need to take are to get money to *any person* who: > > A.) will spend it on consumption, and > > B.) will be assisted in the process. > > Why? Because we need to stimulate demand so that people will buy > whatever shit it is that you sell. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287102 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
