{"id":1984,"date":"2008-01-18T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:02:01","slug":"all-the-wrongsolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"All The Wrong…Solutions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Banaian may blanche, but I suggest that 99% of economics is political.<\/p>\n

And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that that’s what’s behind the administration’s “Fiscal Stimulus” package<\/a> aimed at jump-starting growth:<\/p>\n

Bush planned to lay out his position Friday, but he wasn’t expected to go into specifics. Press secretary Dana Perino said Bush would demand that any package be effective, simple and temporary _ mirroring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a “timely, targeted and temporary” stimulus measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it’s not really an echo; when Tics say “targeted”, it means “targeted at their constituents”. And if I were a Tic, I’d be just a little insulted.<\/p>\n

But more on that later.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers could receive rebates of up to $800 for individuals and $1,600 for married couples under a White House plan. Although lawmakers were considering smaller rebate checks and more money for food stamp recipients and the unemployed, Bush told congressional leaders that he favors income tax rebates for people and tax breaks for business investment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words; Republicans favor handing out sandbags to fight the flood; Tics want to give out Handi-wipes to people who are in water up to the waist.<\/p>\n

Naturally, due to the politics we’re stuck with, the real solution – shutting off the water – seems to be off the table.<\/p>\n

The president did not push for a permanent extension of his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, many of which are due to expire in 2010, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To paraphrase Stone and Parker: “Dum dum dum dum dummmm”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Banaian may blanche, but I suggest that 99% of economics is political. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that that’s what’s behind the administration’s “Fiscal Stimulus” package aimed at jump-starting growth: Bush planned to lay out his position Friday, but he wasn’t expected to go into specifics. Press secretary Dana Perino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}