Aerlinthian posted:
Like I said, you don't know reality. One of those is near real time of debt and deficit. The other is an "analysis" and all the human failings that a subjective "analysis" can contain.
But, but...in the stimulus thread you seem to agree with this statement...
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The first question was retarded. If it created one job then it passed that one. The second one was equally retarded. Asking if it was worth the cost is dumb. When there is a downturn any braking you can do is good. What they should have asked is was it the best or most efficient or most effective thing that could have been done. I assume those numbers would be hugely different.
So the only thing this proves is that polls say what you want them to say.
In one thread, analysis is a frail reed but in the other, it is so important that it invalidates a survey because it isn't included?
Besides which, you are wrong. It isn't all that difficult to figure out the costs of the wars. It isn't that difficult to figure out the costs of suddenly covering a lot of drugs without finding a revenue source to pay for that coverage. Figuring out the costs of the tax cuts is a little trickier, but, can be estimated to a reasonable degree. As a matter of fact, that deficit number right wingers love to throw around includes an analysis of those things.
If you don't like the questions the survey asked, make your own survey. The survey wasn't to figure out what we should have done. It was to determine if economists think what we actually did do worked. They overwhelmingly said yes. Was it worthwhile? Yes.
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