[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[George Cook]

In article <4c62353f$0$21145$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> George Cook wrote:
> 
>> Obama's anti-growth policies have worked so well, that even the
>> Federal Reserve is predicting that unemployment will rise to
>> 10% by the end of the year.
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, what specific decisions taken by Obama have resulted
> in "anti growth" ?
> 
> Bank bailouts was initiated by his predecessor. As was some of the
> economic stimulus packages.
> 
> In terms of roadworks, building bridges etc, is there anything "anti
> growth" in this ? Doesn't this create local jobs and boost local economy ?
> 
> 
> Or is your gripe that the government decided to spend money instead of
> lowering taxes ?
> 
> 
> Lowering taxes for a roadworks company won't create jobs, especially if
> they don't pay taxes because they are lowing money. But giving them a
> paving contract will create jobs and stimulate the local economy.
> 
> This isn't a case of taking an aspirin every day to help provent blood
> cloths. This is a cased of requiring electroshock therapy on the heart
> to get it started again. A tax break is like an aspirin. It doesn't
> revive a patient after a serious heart attack.

If you want to believe that spending $500,000+ to create each
construction job was anything other than stupidity carried to the
nth degree, then it would be nothing but an exercise in utter
futility for me to respond further.  If the stimulus is working
so well, why were 11,000 construction jobs lost in July?


George Cook