On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
> Actually they're likely to vote (with their feet) in large numbers against those who promised government spending to create jobs in the present and then refused to enact any program that would do so because they became terrified by a scarecrow, future deficits.
They were wussy about it, but there's no doubt that ARRA spent a lot of money and preserved millions of jobs that would have otherwise disappeared. Latest CBO estimates:
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11706.
Doug