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Re:Visualizing the Local Effects of Recovery Spending on Job... by watchandwait on Friday September 09, 2011 @03:16PM (#2979454)
What's missing are the jobs lost in other parts of the economy, because govt stimulus is basically a transfer of resources from existing private businesses. In other words, do we really think taxing Google, filtering the money through Congress and the lobbying machine, and providing those funds to a politically favored roads project is really a net jobs creator for the economy?