Oh Boy! More Stimulation!!! Since the first stimulus package worked so well at inefficiently allocating the peoples' money, let's have another go at propping up Goldman and JP Morgan, Bank of America and Citi!! More bailouts are going to be needed very soon in the People's Republic of America, so they're prepping the field. Get ready for another anal probing! A few trillion here, several trillion there, 12-24 trillion in government guaranteeing the bad debt that resulted from the greediest ass pigs you can possibly imagine taking risky decisions with OPM, and pretty soon you're talking real money. What the government is really worried about is 20% unemployment and another Great Depression. I'm not so confident that throwing money into the air is going to help stave off the great unknown. In fact, I'm confident it won't. â¢Second Stimulus Package Should Now Be Considered, Obama Adviser Tyson Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aStWHJXsvePA Obama Adviser Says U.S. Should Mull Second Stimulus (Update2) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Shamim Adam July 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. should consider drafting a second stimulus package focusing on infrastructure projects because the $787 billion approved in February was âa bit too small,â said Laura Tyson, an outside adviser to President Barack Obama. Laura Tyson: "Let's Throw More Money at the Problem & See What Happens. Deficit, Shmeficit, Debt, Shmet." The current plan âwill have a positive effect, but the real economy is a sicker patient,â Tyson said in a speech in Singapore today. The package will have a more pronounced impact in the third and fourth quarters, she added, stressing that she was speaking for herself and not the administration. Tysonâs comments contrast with remarks made two days ago by Vice President Joe Biden and fellow Obama adviser Austan Goolsbee, who said it was premature to discuss crafting another stimulus because the current measures have yet to fully take effect. The government is facing criticism that the first package was rolled out too slowly and failed to stop unemployment from soaring to the highest in almost 26 years. Obama said last month that a second package isnât needed yet, though he expects the jobless rate will exceed 10 percent this year. When Obama signed the first stimulus bill in February, his chief economic advisers forecast it would help hold the rate below 8 percent. Unemployment increased to 9.5 percent in June, the highest since August 1983. The worldâs largest economy has lost about 6.5 million jobs since December 2007. Worse Than Forecast âThe economy is worse than we forecast on which the stimulus program was based,â Tyson, who is a member of Obamaâs Economic Recovery Advisory board, told the Nomura Equity Forum. âWe probably have already 2.5 million more job losses than anticipated.â Republicans, including House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, seized on the latest labor numbers to attack the Obama administrationâs handling of the economy. Even Democrats have bemoaned the pace of the packageâs implementation. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said on âFox News Sundayâ June 5 that congressional Democrats are âdisappointedâ stimulus funds werenât distributed faster. âThe money is just really starting to come out in more significant amounts now,â Tyson said. âThe stimulus is performing close to expectations but not in timing.â Package Affordable Tyson, 62, later told reporters that the U.S. can afford to pay for a second package, even as the fiscal deficit soars. She said the budget shortfall is âlikely to be worseâ than the equivalent of 12 percent of gross domestic product that the administration forecast for 2009 and the 8 percent to 9 percent it projected for next year. The professor at the University of Californiaâs Walter A. Haas School of Business downplayed worries from China and other countries with dollar reserves that the U.S. will let inflation soar as the deficit expands. âThe concern is that the U.S. will have to inflate away its debt. I do not think that is a valid concern,â she said. âThe Federal Reserve is not going to let the U.S. government inflate away its debt.â The U.S. needs to communicate its determination to reduce the annual shortfall once the economy recovers, she said. While unemployment is worsening, other data have shown the economy is improving. U.S. manufacturing shrank last month at the slowest rate since August, according to the Institute for Supply Managementâs factory index, and a measure of pending home sales advanced in May for a fourth month. Tyson said the U.S. should shift away from its dependence on consumption to grow, and promote expansion through investment and exports. The dollar will need to weaken in the longer term to promote export-led growth, she said. To contact the reporter on this story: Shamim Adam in Singapore at sadam2@bloomberg.net Last Updated: July 7, 2009 04:45 EDT
How much is this one going to be? Im thinking a trillion+, probably going to EXTEND unemployment benefits up to 2 years and increase the tax credit for house buyers to $15k like they have been talking about for the last couple of months. This stimulus plan should "PROP" up the economy just like the last one did.... What a Fu$king JOKE!!!!
The last stimulus plan propped up the economy? Where have I been? So far the first stimulus hasn't done much of anything in my view.
More welfare for the rich is needed. And we will give the avergae American maybe $500.00. But for the corporate elite well they get BILLIONS.
Just read the two statements above from this spokeswoman for the Obama administration. These people really think they can just say anything and it will be accepted. Unfortunately, they're right.
I don't think it'll pass. So much public outrage against the first one that anyone planning on running for re-election will fear for their political lives.
If this begins to go into the process of be accepted over the next few weeks and more people start hyping this second stimulus plan and its starts to gain momentum and doesn't occur you can expect a good chance this will be a negative to wallstreet. The last stimulus plan gave many hope of a turn around going forward, however talk of a second stimulus plan could derail any positive thoughts about the economy moving forward into 2010.
I wish I were as optimistic. The MSM will certainly push for it. And the people seem far more interested in the funeral of Jackson than of anything having to do with government or the economy. It'll be harder than last time but still doable, I'm afraid. Eventually the tap will run dry and our government won't be able to borrow any more. Then what are we going to do?