10-08-2010, 08:18 PM
Trouble wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/in...t_id=86924 and go to 1:45 in the video.
Okay, I tried to track down a transcript of the hearing she was talking about but especially because she didn't mention a particular date I haven't had any luck. Based on the context of what she said, I would guess that, at worst, she was sloppy in implying that those conservative economists on the panel agreed with other economists about the effectiveness of food stamps as economic stimulus if those economists did not, in fact, agree with that assessment; and what could just as easily be the case (at least to the extent we know about it here), what she said was something those conservative economists would agree to. It is not implausible because, as I pointed out in an earlier post, Reagan's economic advisor, Martin Feldstein, has been arguing fairly strenuously that we need a good second stimulus package so it would seem that there are conservative economists who do think government spending has an important role to play in an economic turn-around.