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Wow, I guess there wasn't an $800 billion dollar stimulus! LOL.

Very general remarks like "bush's policies" at the least begs for some fleshing out. So these include laws, and budgets passed by the 2007-2009 congress? Where is the reflection of congresses role? Does the graph mean Bushes/Obama policies without regard to congresses' legislatio? And yes, where is the stimulus? I am confused more by what is missing here. It seems an empty document.

This analysis by "The NY Times" is faulty as it uses inconsistent data. The first stimulus President Obama orchestrated cost taxpayers $787 billion. The chart seems to have an embedded political bias and should be considered for removal from wikipedia. Adrianw61 (talk) 15:08, 2 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The CBO forecasts that the analysis is based on were drafted before the stimulus plan was passed into law. If you know of a similar *credible* analysis which includes the stimulus plan and later legislation then please link to it so others can read it.  JBinMD (talk) 16:12, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

I simply can't see any practical way that someone armed only with this graph could get a real grasp of who spent what and how much. It's got a huge NPOV issue and really should be withdrawn. TMLutas (talk) 21:05, 7 August 2011 (UTC)


 * This, and another chart, are reminding me there have been challenges to other Farcaster charts before, including by me in the distant past. It's good someone is trying to make charts, and dealing with statistical issues always difficult, but just want to chime in for need for accuracy and neutrality, per the above. I might have used one of these in an chapter I'm contributing to a book but seeing the caveats, will control self. CarolMooreDC 15:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)