>>But there were other Gogolian tricks - the registries during the war being sparse, mostly burned or lost, at some point the only way to prove you were owed a fighter's retirement (for being in the partisans during the WWII) was by two witnesses. An amazing number of trios came to witness for each other... while, OTOH, regularly collecting German or Italian retirements for being in their service at the time. Someone wondered that the war wasn't finished by 1943, if we had so many fighters surviving to the end.
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>Those types of "stimulus" packages exist(ed) here as well. The stimulus payments to individuals are meant to get the public out spending money in the economy. The problem with them is that if the economy has gone too far down the hill, the money is only used to pay off debts and not actually purchase new products. The timing of the stimulus is important.
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>http://www.sba.gov/stimulus/

OTOH, the debt was created so the people would spend the borrowed money and thus pull the economy up. Didn't it occur to any of the planners that the financers' right to get their money back would trump any other rights?