There is a consensus, and therefore…. oh hang on let me put on a lab coat…
OK. Now. The science is settled. The debate: over. Owing to the consensus, see?
Economists: The stimulus didn’t help
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)—The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government’s stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.
In latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, the index that measures employment showed job growth for the first time in two years—but a majority of respondents felt the fiscal stimulus had no impact.
NABE conducted the study by polling 68 of its members who work in economic roles at private-sector firms. About 73% of those surveyed said employment at their company is neither higher nor lower as a result of the $787 billion Recovery Act.
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That sentiment is shared for the recently passed $17.7 billion jobs bill that calls for tax breaks for businesses that hire and additional infrastructure spending. More than two-thirds of those polled believe the measure won’t affect payrolls, while 30% expect it to boost hiring “moderately.” …
D’oh! Turns out zee science is nit shettled. Debate she rages. Zee progressives refuse to accept zee science! Must been spending more of zee taxpayer moneys! Consensus conschmensus!
I think the special science of the progressives tell them that since the progressives in all levels of governments have already ignored sensible, conservative Americans and Canadians and have spent our future and our children’s and their children’s future into a massive and near-inescapable debt, taxation, big-government ditch, they’ve got to spend more of our money in order to dig themselves out of their spending and debt quagmire. It’s interesting science. It’s been tried over and over and their experiments fail each time, in fact worse each time, but they think it will turn out differently this time. Veddy interestink.
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