Tuesday, May 4, 2010

$500 million to go

Larry Kudlow looks at the government stimulus - or lack thereof.
The Obama administration continues to argue that its massive federal-spending campaign is essential to economic recovery. Yet the latest GDP report from the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that the 3.2 percent first-quarter economic growth rate got no help from government spending.
In fact, combined federal, state, and local spending actually fell 1.8 percent. What’s more, over the last three quarters of a mild V-shaped recovery, with an average quarterly rebound of 3.7 percent, government spending actually exerted a small net drag (-0.03%) on growth.

And they still have $500 million to spend.
Doubt it will buy votes for them. More likely it will build more anger at out-of-control Democratic government.

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