[Translate] The Republican Party, or GOP, is running a new commercial designed to criticize the first, and much needed, Economic Stimulus Package. The problem with the GOP take is that it’s just plain stupid. Anyone who took macroeconomics knows that when business investment is low, and consumer investment is down, the one way to make sure that any economy – not just the American economy – is growing is to increase government spending. The spending has to be applied in such a way as to cause or sustain economic...
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[Translate] AOL — the conservative place on the Internet — ran this article reporting three separate economic models predicting November election victory for Senator Barack Obama. The reason is that the Economy is in terrible shape and it’s a subject Obama scores better than McCain on in polling. But of course, AOL being well, Southern (based in Virginia) and stupid (because they appeal to racist-tendencies) they had to run a poll asking who viewers wanted to win. Most of the AOLers picked McCain by ten percent...
