Bernie leads Hildawg in NH

[Benton]

(09-08-2015, 08:12 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The census. That's something I have considered a thread about. Whether we should look at an amendment to allow for sampling to allow for a possibly more accurate representation of the undercounted populations...

The problem for a long time has been that the information is only as good as those reporting it. Illegal aliens, criminals, those receiving government aid (whether they are eligible or not), distrustful legal immigrants. Lots of people have reasons not to be up front with information. Census data is good, but, in my opinion, is flawed.

How to fix that, I dunno.

(09-08-2015, 08:13 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: "This plan will save taxpayers 300 billion over the next 10 years."

That stuff.  Our budget is done annually, and any cuts or additions should be stated clearly in an annual figure. 

The 10 year stuff is to make it sound like a bigger number, to imply that they're actually doing something worthwhile.  

Ah, I'm following.

Mostly it's because the year-to-year isn't really a good judge of overall economic strength or weaknesses. That's the problem with stimulus checks and other ploys, they temporarily bump the economy, but long-term they don't provide much growth. For a business, you're looking at forecasts for several years down the road. You aren't adding more employees or buying new equipment, typically, because your profit grew by 5% for eight months. If you're expecting it to grow 5% for 3-4 years, then you might look at adding new workers to keep up.

Another way to look at it is go back to the 80s. Trickle down. It was good in the short term. Investors felt confident, businesses had more money to dump into the economy. The long-term effect has been disastrous, but looking at it in the first 3-5 years after the approach was taken, it looked good.