Posted by
GFC on Friday, February 13, 2009 5:06:14 PM
Yesterday on NBC's Today Show one of the pieces was about things to look for to see if the stimulus is working. The piece turned out to be about signs that the economy is recovering. The two are not the same. The point of the stimulus is to make the economy get better, but economic improvement won't necessarily be because of the stimulus. If I pour orange die into the ground at the base of an orange tree and the oranges end up orange, it isn't because of the die I poured. Oranges turn orange, die or no die.
Expect this sort of subtle bias to continue. Democrats and their supporters will seldom offer details about how the stimulus and economic recovery are connected. They will just say the stimulus is working because the economy is getting better. Republicans need to start countering this faulty reasoning before it has managed to persuade those unwilling to perform their own analysis.