{"id":2750,"date":"2011-08-11T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:18:50","slug":"the-simple-truth-behind-the-porkulus-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/the-simple-truth-behind-the-porkulus-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"The simple truth behind the &#8220;porkulus&#8221; acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The stimulus passed in February of 2009 didn\u2019t go to shovel ready projects. Instead it propped up state and local governments that were broke. What didn\u2019t go to governments was spent on projects without any regard for their return on investment. For example, green light bulb research might be a neat concept, but the short term return on investment is 0. You might even believe that green light bulb research will have positive economic effects in the future-but stimulus is designed to help us today so it\u2019s still a stupid way to spend government dollars. Even if you think stimulus can work, it doesn\u2019t because of politics. This phenomena occurs no matter which party is in charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/pointsandfigures.com\/2011\/08\/10\/keynes-is-dead-long-live-the-chicago-boys\/\">Jeff Carter nailing it shut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Carter goes on to present a simple, proven method used by both democrat &amp; Republican Presidents to stimulate economic growth and job creation.\u00a0 A method that won&#8217;t be used as long as our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> is in the White House and Harry Reid and the democrats control the Senate.\u00a0 It goes against their <em>so-called<\/em> &#8220;progressive&#8221; policies, which they will<a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2011\/08\/10\/jimmy-carter-is-the-best-case-scenario\/?singlepage=true\"> blindly cling to regardless of how much damage they cause the country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/319991.php\">HT to AoSHQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The stimulus passed in February of 2009 didn\u2019t go to shovel ready projects. Instead it propped up state and local governments that were broke. What didn\u2019t go to governments was spent on projects without any regard for their return on investment. For example, green light bulb research might be a neat concept, but the short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,50,52,19],"tags":[140,262,294,414,584,621,625,839],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-one-term-president","tag-politics","tag-porkulus","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Im","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}