"3. Costing of the multiplier effect? Just gave the figure for how much it cost to keep a construction job. You think $450,000 is good value? What exactly would have been the job losses without a stimulus thingy? Canada is back to its pre-GFC levels without putting the country into long term debt. "
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I dunno where you get that $450K figure from but is that the cost of directly saving one job? I dunno if thats value for money or not?
Is that cost higher or lower than the cost of someone losing a job, taking unemployment benefits, re-training, stress, impact on dependants, impact on other jobs related to this particular guy's consumption, impact on business doing the firing, cost of rehiring down the track, etc?
As for Canada, the trend in their national debt followed ours and others:
