Universe Closed Use Rainbow

[bebopbalogna]

Alas poor your dick. I blew his whore ratio.

i think pickles has some sort of pun generator in his computer.

[Doctor Rock]

i did manage to squeeze some macbeth in there though.

True, but see, it's your joke murdering: the blood is in your hands, not mine. 

[bebopbalogna]

spin it any way you want.  false face must hide what the false heart doth know.

[Doctor Rock]

spin it any way you want.  false face must hide what the false heart doth know.

That's the spirit! 

[bebopbalogna]

that's the apparition.

[Bizarro]

WARNING: economic debate contained within spoiler tags.

[spoiler]

If I recall correctly, Keynes approach involved, to put it simply, a reduction in interest rates and government investment in infrastructure.

Interest rates are part of it, but the core of it, as it is usually applied goes something like this... when the economy slumps, you calculate the amount of money that is missing from the economy, that is, the money that would be getting spent if everything was hunky dory. Then, the government injects that money back into the economy through infrastructure spending. Whether this application of Keynes's ideas is faithful to his intentions is an academic matter, because this is exactly how they are being applied.

This is the stimulus we're talking about here, not the bailouts.
[/spoiler]

[Doctor Rock]

WARNING: economic debate contained within spoiler tags.

[spoiler]

If I recall correctly, Keynes approach involved, to put it simply, a reduction in interest rates and government investment in infrastructure.

Interest rates are part of it, but the core of it, as it is usually applied goes something like this... when the economy slumps, you calculate the amount of money that is missing from the economy, that is, the money that would be getting spent if everything was hunky dory. Then, the government injects that money back into the economy through infrastructure spending. Whether this application of Keynes's ideas is faithful to his intentions is an academic matter, because this is exactly how they are being applied.

This is the stimulus we're talking about here, not the bailouts.
[/spoiler]

It's ok, Jeff!  When you said "enormous amounts of money" in that first post, I assumed you were talking about bail outs, in part, I think, because they talked about bail-outs and the obscene amount of cash involved in this morning paper.  I was still fuming about it, so that's all I thought about.  I stand corrected. 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Joke murder most foul!

[Moetown]

I wonder who bootshit is...