The White House defended the stimulus against GOP criticism, saying in a new report that the bill, among other things, saved or created an average of 1.6 million jobs a year between 2009 and 2012, according to the AP.
The one stimulus that comes from criticism is a perceptive essay on another writer, like Erich Heller's book 'The Artist's Journey into the Interior,' which reawakened the excitement of writing.
The stimulus measures come after heavy criticism in Hong Kong that the government consistently produces large budget surpluses even during periods of weak economic growth, including the last year.
I think that much of the criticism of the stimulus legislation on both sides of the political spectrum has been misplaced.
By Hendrik Hertzberg March 9, 2009 A letter to the magazine's The Mail section: Hendrik Hertzberg mocks Louisiana Governor Jindal (Talk of the Town, March 9th) for Jindal's criticism of the stimulus plan's expenditures on "volcano monitoring".
A letter to the magazine's The Mail section: Hendrik Hertzberg mocks Louisiana Governor Jindal (Talk of the Town, March 9th) for Jindal's criticism of the stimulus plan's expenditures on "volcano monitoring".
Yet Barack Obama's plan to include more than a hundred billion dollars in individual tax rebates in his stimulus package has earned him criticism from both ends of the political spectrum.
She has sought to mollify German voters by giving her finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, a free hand to ratchet up his criticism of the stimulus policies Mario Draghi is pursuing at the European Central Bank, and by insisting that there should be no debt relief for Greece until Tsipras has done everything demanded of him.
Criticism of the stimulus package reflects this truism.
Instead, they have settled for carping criticism of the stimulus package, playing games by nitpicking lesser-cost programs while ignoring the big items that most governors, be they Republican or Democrat, eagerly want.
