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Refer to Reba's post, she gave a link about DeMint's views.
and Jiro's post AllDeaf.com - View Single Post - Obama: This isn't your 'run-of-the-mill recession'
Yes, I have and posted link in my post # 107 against Reba's link.
Reba's post
Use Demint's plan.
A liberal rebuttal to DeMint's plan
Earlier, we linked to Michael Franc's rhapsodic praise for the Demint Plan, which he suggested would:
lead to the creation of 1.3 million new jobs in 2010, 7.5 million by 2013, and an astounding 18 million within ten years. Residential and commercial real estate activity would also soar, by almost $300 billion over 5 years.
Here's Matt Yglesias singing a different tune:
The trouble is that for job growth to keep pace with population growth, we need to add 1.5–1.6 million new jobs every year. To get a labor market recovery off the ground after well over a year of job losses, we need the pace of job growth to be considerably faster than that. DeMint’s promise of 1.3 million jobs is a promise to keep recessionary conditions going through 2010. Meanwhile, even the Bush administration Treasury Department has conceded that large, unfunded, permanent tax cuts of the sort DeMint is proposing result in slower long-run growth. Because DeMint’s plan is so generous to the richest Americans, they may well wind up better off under his slow-growth scenario than they would be under more balanced policies. But middle class Americans would be much better served by a policy that brings about more rapid recovery—the Romer-Bernstein number for the Obama plan is 3.7 million jobs instead of DeMint’s 1.3 million—and that lays the foundation for long-term growth by avoiding the sort of huge long-run deficits that DeMint’s plan would guarantee.
GOP 12: A liberal rebuttal to DeMint's plan
I agree with Michael Franc and Matt Yglesias over job and population growth. DeMint's plan is good for wealthy Americans... DeMint's plan is create 1,3 million job up to 2010 to compare with Obama's plan 3,7 million job? DeMint's plan is too slow to population growth.
Does DeMint's plan work since there're thousands people already lost their homes and job ?