Historical perspectives on "Porkulus"

[King 5.45]

Given that the $800 Billion “Economic Stimulus Bill” is so controversial, as someone with a master’s degree in history, I naturally wondered what some of the great figure of history would have to say about the bill. So I asked them. Here are their responses.

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/200...-stimulus.html

Of all of the quotes, this one seems to say the most to me:

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

--Winston Churchill

[adymond]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. --H.L. Mencken

The manufactured crisis is a useful tool for a tyrant.

[Kaos]

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. --Margaret Thatcher

HOGWASH!

We'll just print more!