>>>We don't really know whether the reactions of Bush and Obama to the Great Recession were mistakes. We don't know what would have happened if they had done nothing.
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>>That's the same line of thinking as me doing a line of coke because I don't know what would happen if I didn't do a line of coke.
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>Your reply is devoid of reason.
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>We don't know what would have happened to the economy had other choices been made because it's a huge juggernaut with myriad influences. It is impossible to predict.
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>By contrast, the effect of cocaine on the human body is well documented... as is not consuming cocaine.

That's under the assumption that throwing money at the problem wasn't a stupid idea in the first place, which was being shouted by most fiscal conservatives.