View Single Post
Old 02-18-2010, 12:19 PM   #106
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DC
Posts: 13,575
So that's a no then? You have nothing (nothing at all) to dispute their accuracy?

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMercenary View Post
They are certainly no crystal ball on what will really happen.
Quote:
Originally Posted by classicman's post
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), for example, has estimated that the stimulus was responsible for between 800,000 and 2.4 million jobs in 2009.
It's an estimate of past perfomance, based on what did happen, not a prediction.
Quote:
The numbers have been invalidated by numerous organizations who are not associated with the government.
No they haven't (prove me wrong).
Quote:
Even if you took the low end of most estimates at 600k that is pissing in the wind ...
Don't you mean "especially if"? If you take the low end, of 800K, it looks worse than than if you take the middle or high end? Amazing how that works.
__________________
_________________
|...............| We live in the nick of times.
| Len 17, Wid 3 |
|_______________| [pics]
Happy Monkey is offline   Reply With Quote