...   
    ->>  Why a violent religion like Christianity then?   
      
    FS> Christianity is a peaceful, gentle, "turn the other cheek"   
    FS> religion -- quite a contrast from Islam.  Right?  This is   
    FS> not a religion echo but I had to reply to your   
    FS> anti-Christian slur.   
      
    Like the Coptic Christians who massacred the prisoners in an   
    Israeli internment camp? Like the Coptic christian who killed   
    Bobby Kennedy?   
      
   ->> ->>  *Wall Street Journal*: 70 percent of economists surveyed said   
   ->> ->>  stimulus helped. **The Wall Street Journal reported on March 12   
   ->> ->>  that 38 of the 54 economists it surveyed "said the American   
   ->> ->>  Recovery and Reinvestment Act boosted growth and mitigated job   
   ->> ->>  losses, while six said the legislation had a net negative   
   ->> ->>  effect."   
      
   ->> ->>  **ABC News: Most on panel of economists "think the economy would   
   ->> ->>  be worse" without the stimulus. **ABC News reported on February   
   ->> ->>  18 that "most" of the economists on its panel "think the economy   
   ->> ->>  would be worse today without the big aid package, which totaled   
   ->> ->>  $787 billion and was signed into law by President Obama on Feb.   
   ->> ->>  17, 2009."   
      
   ->> ->>  **NABE: 83 percent say stimulus raised GDP. **A February survey   
   ->> ->>  of 203 members of the National Association for Business   
   ->> ->>  Economics (NABE) found that "[e]ighty-three percent believe that   
   ->> ->>  GDP is currently higher than it would have been without the 2009   
   ->> ->>  stimulus package (ARRA)."   
      
   ->> ->>  *USA Today*: Surveyed economists said "stimulus package saved   
   ->> ->>  jobs." **USA Today reported on January 25:   
    ...   
   ->>  The WSJ is far right wing. The NABE is made up of *BUSINESS*   
   ->>  economists.   
      
    FS> The Wall Street Journal is a middle-of-the-road paper!   
      
    To Attila the Hun, maybe.   
      
    ...   
      
   ->>  FS>  Such wild speculation, Bob!  Obama, himself said   
   ->>  FS>  unemployment would not reach 8% as a rusult of his   
   ->>  FS>  stimulus ... so??   
      
   ->>  No, he did not. Some of his advisors made that calculation, but   
   ->>  Obama did not say that.   
      
    FS> If his handlers said it, and Obama did not deny it, then   
    FS> *Obama*, in effect, said it!  "The Buck Stops Here"   
    FS> remember!   
      
    Yeah, but right wingers forgot it.   
      
    Oh the unemployment rate is now below 8%.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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