Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Ross Sauer:

 EC> On 12/5/2010 9:35 PM, Ross Sauer wrote to Jeff Binkley:

 EC> ~> I do know that from 2003-2007 the Bush tax did *NOT* help the
 EC> economy, ~> and starting with the housing buuble popping, everything
 EC> went downhill.

 EC> Do you also "know" that the 2009 stimulus did not help
the economy? 
 EC> The post-hoc evidence is the same.

I didn't notice any visible effect.  That $300 check didn't help me much at all.

In passing I note that gasoline is up a nickel a gallon (to $2.74) from five days
ago and that heating oil is up a quarter a gallon (to $2.82) from last Febrarry (amd
up a dpollar from the winter of 2008-9)..

But of course there's been no inflation since Bush minor left office.

No inflation.  Rice is up a quarter for a 2 lb bag, oatmeal is up 40 cents for a
42 oz box, dog food is up $5.50 for a 40 lb bag, vinegar is up 30 cents/gallon.

I guess the good news is that soda pop has held steady at $1.69 - for a bottle
that costs maybe 35 cents to produce, fill, and put in the retail cooler.

Newspaers seem steady at 75 cents (they used to cost a dime - 'course that bottle of
pop used to cost a dime, too ), but they're gettin a LOT thinner;
the want ads section
of the daily Omaha fishwrapper is all of two, sometimes two and a half pages now, it
usedtawas five times that size.


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