Both words start with S and both smell like another word that smarts with an S. A stimulus should be an infrequent action to get something to get over a hump or an obstacle. For example, long distance runners will use "Gu" to stimulate their bodies with quick burst of calories. This quick burst has the ability to help the body maintain its level to complete its task. A subsidy would an I.V. in a hospital or the "Iron Lung" to help somebody breathe. Do we see the difference?
In one instance the action is injection to assist through an unusual or unseen instance to assist until normality returns (stimulus). The other is allowing something to operate in a sphere that is no sustainable.
While I recognize I think the need for some things to operate under subsidy, I do not feel that an entire government should. If we can not sustain our current "normality' then maybe just maybe we need to step away from the flat-screen TV's and the new cars. Maybe we should eat in a little more, play more board games, and heaven forbid spend more time with our families.
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Remember that time in Mendez's class when you said maybe it wasn't such a bad thing if America's standard of living came down a little if the result was that some impoverished countries could rise out of poverty? Then the Dr. of economics and the whole class scoffed at you for such a silly idea? I love how entitled we Americans feel.
Sounds good to me!
In reference to the comment above...would you really say such a thing?!? HAHA
I do have a heart.
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