->  ...   
   ->  ->>  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?   
      
   There are rogues in all religions.  Hence wot you've said means nothing.   
       
   -> ->> ->>  *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.   
      
   Attila the Hun is long dead.  If he were alive today, he'd probably be   
   devoted to the New York Times and other left-wing rags ...   
      
   -> ->>  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%.   
      
   Not the REAL rate which is over 14% ... and that includes those looking for   
   work and those who have given up looking since it's so futile in these   
   Obama days ...   
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