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Originally Posted by Aliantha
According to the OECD, Australia is in the best shape in the developed world financially, and they've put it down to the govt stimulus packages, along with fairly strict regulations on banking and investments.
My point is of course that it might be too soon to tell if the stimulus package put together by your govt will boost your economy due to its size.
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People here won't give it time, and they won't take into account how many people
weren't laid off or fired because of the stimulus. All they do is quote how many jobs have not been created. When Obama said those things, it was before we knew how bad it was going to be.
And it's looking like we didn't do enough, like we might need another stimulus, which is what some economists were saying from the beginning, that it wasn't big enough. I just hope, if they do another one, it is all about jobs and infrastructure, and not about tax cuts.
We should be building highspeed rail systems, and hydrogen highways, and giving money to people who are building green cars and green energy companies, and giving money to people to solarize their homes or put in personal wind machines. THAT would create jobs, LOTS of them. Fuck the "cap and trade" legislation, just give the money to people who will create the alternatives, and it will work itself out. I think if people had a choice, most of them would choose to get their power from a green source.