Why Isn't The Stimulus Stimulating?

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For example I would be very much in favour of buying things and throwing them into the ocean.  This simple expedient alone could solve all the car industry's 'problems' in a trice.

Indeed, Keynes pointed out that burying bottles stuffed with cash deep underground and then unleashing a vast workforce of miners to dig them up would be an effective stimulus.

Haha, well I suppose we'd need a similar sized workforce to bury them in the first place.  Why not just set the cash out in bales in the ghetto?  Perhaps Keynes feared this would undermine the 'work ethic'.

Vine Deloria suggested to solve the problems of unemployment on Pine Ridge and not offending the Sioux' selfview as a Warrior People by having the government run a subsidized wagon train across the reservation everyday, and paying the Dakotas the minimum wage for attacking it.

I think the best way to help the Pine Ridge people would be to give each family a plot of land to grow food or raise animals that they could call their own.

You could also put windmills on the land and the revenue could go to the tribe.

Also, they should be allowed a Pine Ridge reservation run casino in Sioux Falls.  That revenue would go to the reservation as well.

Poverty would end on the reservation.