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Old 02-18-2010, 12:19 PM   #11
Happy Monkey
I think this line's mostly filler.
 
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So that's a no then? You have nothing (nothing at all) to dispute their accuracy?

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They are certainly no crystal ball on what will really happen.
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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.
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The numbers have been invalidated by numerous organizations who are not associated with the government.
No they haven't (prove me wrong).
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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.
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