This article was titled Trade-offs in the Stimulus Package and was written by Madison Powers who is a CQ guest columnist and is a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of ethics at Georgetown and writes for CQ politics. This article was about the economic stimulus package that president Obama has put forth and talks about the competing legislation involving trade-offs and whether to balance the two ideas that the author Madison Powers sugest in the article. This article was written to a general audience to make certain the american people know both sides of the debate invoving trade offs in the stimulus package and what they are about.
The author Madison powers says in the article "One trade-off is between goals of efficiency and the ideals of equity. the second is the need to strike a balance between infrastructure and other activities that also stimulate economic growth." I think that he means first whether it is fair to be fair to all people or to be more efficient with regards to spending money. Another point that was made in the article was that some people want a more widespread recovery and others want " Our spending priorities to yeild a greater amount of economic activity". One other thing that was said in the article was that the author posed a question saying " do we make sure that all boatbes dont sink than to create a rising tide that will lift all boats" i think that he is saying do we save what we can now or do we fix the problem so that it will not happen again. the downside would be that future generations would be in a lot of debt.
