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My opinion is that both Bush's TARP and Obama's Stimulus ended the recession.
That's fine, but I'm asking about a specific piece of the legislation. Was this $650M a wise use of the money considering the overall goal of the stimulus, or could it have been spent another way?
How so? We can calculate waste if you can provide costs related to obesity.
Hint: Your number would be in hundred of billions of dollars every year. But I guess, it won't register as a waste to you?
..and again your totally missing the point. When I have to solve a problem I don't take the band aid approach. I go right to the root of the problem. The issue of obesity in kids is directly tied to the fact they don't exercise like they use too. Their lives are so regimented and other issues like the advent of the computer keep them in the house or occupied with something else and they never get a chance to exercise. If eating too much is the problem I'd have been a balloon when I was kid, the difference is I exercised. Every day primarily on my bicycle and nearly everyone I knew did the same. I can only remember one truly obese kid in my class and he had a medical problem, even he rode a bike everywhere.
If you're going to spend 650 million dollars on obesity advertising has to be the most wasteful way you could do it. You're not attacking the root of the problem and once the money is gone and campaign is over you're still going to have just as many fat kids as you did before. Do you really think and advertising campaign for a few weeks or months is going to be effective use of 650 million dollars?
So, the individual states are the fat kids who are responsible for the fact that they didn't magically create jobs with the money they received from the Recovery Act ???
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..and again your totally missing the point. When I have to solve a problem I don't take the band aid approach. I go right to the root of the problem. The issue of obesity in kids is directly tied to the fact they don't exercise like they use too...
And why do you assume that this doesn't include that, among a multitude of other issues that are adding to an obese populace?
Again, how much does obesity epidemic costing America?
Basically the stimulus was sold to congresss as a infrastruture bill that woulod creat millions of jobs and keep unemployemnt at or blow 8%. It was nothig of the sort. Thsoe shovel ready projects was really shovelig mney to public jobs to keep them doing wehat they were already being paid to do basically. Even the TARP funds were sold as first half to bailout the large banks that threatened to shut down the system and the second was left for Obama to use on the housig crisis. That also was diverted to thigns like the auto comapnies with a large share goig to the UAW.
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Each state received funds from the Recovery Act
