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Should the government use economic stimulus to aid the country during times of recession?

Leaders across Europe, as well in the U.S. government and the International Monetary Fund, are calling for Germany to boost public spending to help reverse the slowdown. But in Berlin, policy makers are sticking to the view that the eurozone crisis and sluggish growth result from a lack of sufficient economic overhauls in struggling countries, especially France and Italy. France has asked Germany to invest an additional €50 billion ($63.8 billion) over three years as a way of countering budget cuts in France.

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 @8Q6C4Y4 from Florida  answered…4yrs4Y

Sometimes government intervention may be necessary, but only as a last resort

 @7YFGPVT from Utah  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, direct assistance and possible tax breaks for low to lower middle income households. Direct and tax breaks for small business only.

Large companies and global corporations have the capital and should have the foresight to save and have their own safety net. The federal government need to adopt a hard policy of not providing fiscal support to large corporations, so it clear that those entities have to have their own contingency plan.

 @dandymananswered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but in the form of stimulus checks to all citizens

 @5ZHZMH6 from Minnesota  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but individual's who are in need should apply for the stimulus. It shouldn't just be given to everyone.

 @8CN7P7L from New Jersey  answered…3yrs3Y

No, there is not enough money to do so. If we print out more money inflation will go up and the American dollar will devalue.

 @shaleel@267 from Georgia  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but in the form of increased spending by federal agencies

 @8GKXVXV from California  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but allow tax breaks for median and low income citizens.

 @8GTWWZJ from Rhode Island  answered…4yrs4Y

Government should lower the prices during recession.

 @8P4J799 from Wisconsin  answered…4yrs4Y

I don't have enough knowledge on this topic

 @8PNDVD7 from New Jersey  answered…3yrs3Y

No, give citizens tax breaks

 @8WMMY79 from Massachusetts  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes by only sending stimulus payments to US citizens

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Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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