Written on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 8:41am by Alan Bedenko | 14 Comments

Economic Stimulus – Make Your Voice Heard

If you have even a passing interest in the economic meltdown and the economic stimulus that congress may pass over the next few weeks, then you may want to consider attending an economic forum being sponsored by “Be the Change NY“.

On Saturday, January 3rd, you can attend a forum featuring WNY elected officials, together with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-14), (extended bio) the Vice-chair of the House/Senate Joint Economic Committee and the Chairwoman of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee.

Attendees can submit written questions of the panel. Questions should be on-topic, addressing their concerns and/or ideas pertaining to the economic crisis and its affect on WNY.

The forum is Saturday the 3rd from 2 – 4pm at the Main Branch (central) of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library on the 1st floor. Let your voice be heard by the people who will pass the laws dealing with these issues.

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14 Comments

  1. indabuff says:
    January 2, 2009 at 8:55 am

    feel good forums = FAIL

  2. hank says:
    January 2, 2009 at 9:36 am

    Keynesian Economic Stimulus–FAIL.

    If you want to see what happens to regions where the largest employer is the government—Open your door and step outside.

    After 4 years of New Deal Make Work Projects, the unemployment rate in 1937 was 13%. Is that an acceptable number considering the billions being spent on infrastructure improvements? Hope it works for you, because it didn’t work then.

  3. mike says:
    January 2, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Hank, the devil’s hole steps were put in by the wpa, they are still there and still working just fine. Whats wrong with money being spent on things like that? Only 14 more days until you can start blaming everything on obama.

  4. mike says:
    January 2, 2009 at 11:04 am

    sorry hank bad example for you, hard to get up and down the steps wearing your moo-moo!!

  5. Ben McD says:
    January 2, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    I’d love to attend, but UB plays in Toronto at noon. I’ll be attending the game instead. Is a recording of some type going to be posted on the web somewhere?

  6. joeschmidbauer says:
    January 2, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Bush/Paulson Economic Stimulus = we are screwed ($8,500,000,000.000 so far and counting)

    Hank, you are embarrassing. The Free market has fallen and it can’t get up.(again) Now the people are paying for it in pain and money. Even Greenspan has seen the light and agrees it doesn’t work.

    joe schmidbauer

  7. hank says:
    January 2, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Whats wrong with money being spent on things like that?

    WHEN THE JOB’S OVER–WHAT DO THE WORKERS DO THEN, NUMBNUTS?

  8. mike says:
    January 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    After all our bridges are fixed, bike path’s built and roads repaired we send them to china to fight world war 3. Geeze hank you must be thick.

  9. Ben McD says:
    January 2, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    “the devil’s hole steps were put in by the wpa, they are still there and still working just fine. Whats wrong with money being spent on things like that?”

    It prolongs whatever crisis it was meant to pull you out of.

    “The Free market has fallen and it can’t get up.(again)”

    Please explain.

  10. mike says:
    January 2, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    your right ben, just keep shoveling our tax money to wall street. forget about fixing up our roads or bridges the suits will throw you a nickel while your sleeping on the streets.

  11. Jim Ostrowski says:
    January 3, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    “The Free market has fallen”

    How many times can the left say the free market has fallen. Every time you say it, you confirm your prior failure to kill it.

    The market is simply people making free choices in cooperation with others. If the market has fallen, that must mean that the government gun has risen. Yuck!

    The basis for the present economy is the Federal Reserve, a government entity. In the free market, people choose gold and silver as money. That’s why they passed the Legal Tender Acts and why your hero FDR made gold a controlled substance. So, not to beat a dead horse but myths die hard–when the market is made illegal, please explain how the market has failed.

    (Not holding my breath.)

  12. mike says:
    January 3, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    i guess jim never heard of Nixon or nixon shock. Even your hero greenspan said at the time “under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy’s stability and balanced growth… The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit… In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation”

  13. Jim Ostrowski says:
    January 3, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    What does the last post mean? I can’t make any sense of it.

  14. hank says:
    January 6, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    Jimbo–never try to inject logic into what “mike” says. the void between his ears is HUGE.