1930s Quote by Kevin Rudd

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

— Paul Ryan

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all…

— Michael Bloomberg

The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in…

— Jared Polis

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

— Richard Wagner

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent,…

— Paul Ryan

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended effects that…

— Kristi Noem

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal…

— Paul Krugman

“Fighting unemployment by methods far more costly than the opening of bread lines and soup kitchens would not have been given serious consideration, regardless…

— Philip A. Fisher

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies,…

— Stephen Harper

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out…

— Martin Feldstein

“KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS AND STIMULUS Keynesian economics is based on the notion that unemployment arises when total or aggregate demand in an economy falls short…

— Alan S. Blinder