#stimulus

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#economic #economic policies #failure #fear #gate

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#disastrous #free #free market #government #inserted

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#banking #big #crisis #financial #financial crisis

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. ↗

— Terry Savage

#bet #confiscated #could #earnings #economy

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#corporate #patronage #political #stimulus #their

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. ↗

— William Banting

#becomes #beyond #charm #comfort #creates

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#economic #investment #real #stimulus

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#comes #consciousness #knowing #like #others

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#anything #deficits #done #exacerbate #going