koods said:

Whether you like it or not, government spending has proven to be the best way to recover from economic downturns.

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koods said:

Shins said:

koods said:

Whether you like it or not, government spending has proven to be the best way to recover from economic downturns.

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Wrong all it does is postpone the downturn until later, also making it worse.

this is so obvious even a liberal should get it.

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History proves you wrong

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Shins said:

Mr.GuessWork said:

koods said:

Whether you like it or not, government spending has proven to be the best way to recover from economic downturns.

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It's kind of like giving oxygen to a person who can't breathe well. When they recover they can breath on their own again. When you withhold oxygen, the person either dies or develops chronic problems that end up causing more problems  for everybody else in the long run.

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Your analogy fails because the economy nevr did, and never will breathe on its own again.  It is on constant life support and is requiring more and more even just to stay alive then.


a better analogy is that giving heroin to a heroin addict makes them better for the time being, but unless you constantly keep injecting heroin the economy will experience withdrawal.  If you don't stop, tolerance will keep building until an OD.

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Cool counter-analogy, but withdrawal causes more drastic problems than addiction does. Addiction has sneakier and more subtle dangers, but sudden withdrawal is deadly right away. Look at the rioting in Greece. You're better off buying time figuring out what to do about the subtle problems than you are by withholding needed help and causing heavy damage to the economy right away.

akira_akuma said:

koods, you're a liberal, so even if you studied this particular subject, you can't be trusted to not simply be parroting other liberal opinions, which makes you weak and stoopid.

right? that's how this works, i think.

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You're jumping the gun.

koods said:

Yes it does.

Government spending got us out of the Great Depression and led to the greatest expansion of wealth in the history of the world, and Keynesian economic theory has been practiced successfully ever since.

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nicechrisman said:

Yeah addiction to food and other necessities of life is just like being a heroin junkie

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Shins said:

Greece is basically; when your heroin dealer stops fronting you and you're broke/a raging junkie.

the liberal socialists think that if you could just find more heroin everything will be ok, and that doing more and more heroin is a real solution.

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Patlal said:

I don't know why people are bashing austerity so much. It's actually the RIGHT thing to do BY FAR.

If anyone bothered to look at the numbers you would realize that the EU and the US had practically the same growth rebound. The ony difference is that the US endebte itself madly to get the same results.

In 2012, the EU suffered because of Spain, Greece and France but it only knocked off 1% growth compared to the US.

Whoever says that spending money you don't have  is the best way to get out of debt is mad.

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Shins said:

And still vote democrat...

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Mr.GuessWork said:

Shins said:

And still vote democrat...

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I think most of the junkies are dumb enough to vote republican even though it's against their best interests.

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Shins said:

Mr.GuessWork said:

Shins said:

And still vote democrat...

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I think most of the junkies are dumb enough to vote republican even though it's against their best interests.

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Why would a junkie ever vote for anyone other than the one who gives them free heroin?   

The trick is to never start doing heroin in the first place, that's the conservative position.

Liberals say "look guys giving heroin to a withdrawing junkie makes them better!  See? Liberal economics works!


while in reality they are the heroin dealers who got the junkie hoked in the first place and are whi beneifit from the junkie needing more heroin constantly

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