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The first stimulus was sold largely on the basis that it would cap unemployment at a worst case scenario rate of 8%. Proponents claimed that jobs would be created immediately, and our economy would be on the upswing by the end of the year. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, unemployment now sits at 10.2%, and jobs are nowhere to be found.
How much of your hard-earned money does the government have to waste before they realize that throwing money at a problem isn’t a viable solution?
Just look at the $700-billion financial industry bailout known as TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). Earlier this month, Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General in charge of overseeing the TARP bailout said the program “will ‘almost certainly’ result in a loss to taxpayers." According to Barosky
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Bloomberg also reports that Barofsky is conducting 65 investigations of possible fraud with the implementation of the TARP.
Clearly, the last thing we need is another bailout or stimulus or whatever you want to call it. We need to allow Americans to keep more of their own money, not take it away. While simplistic, it’s a tried and true method for economic revitalization and sustained prosperity.
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