Talk:stimulus package

It's a [[stimulus]] [[package]]. Actually, I'd call this an error rather than a SoP. When Obama talks about a stimulus package, it's not a single term but two consecutive one word terms. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:07, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a set term for a specific government program. Not guessable from its parts.--Dmol (talk) 22:27, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep at least for now. I don't think we have the right definition of stimulus at the moment - "Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system" is far too vague to give anyone a clue what a stimulus package would be. Smurrayinchester (talk) 22:36, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Somewhat unsurprisingly, it's not a specific government program. It's attestable before 2008. For example it's attested in 1988. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:52, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It's certainly a shortening of something like (government Keynesian economic) stimulus (action) package. But the same vague combination of things might refer just to legislation, proposed by anyone or passed by either house; any subset of the total package, as for a given cabinet department; items undertaken by executive action or by the Federal Reserve; and that's just in the US. The common element is (economic) stimulus + package. Delete. DCDuring TALK 19:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Hekaheka (talk) 12:25, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, by the way I heard relief package on the BBC news a few days ago. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:37, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Add a "marketing" sense to package, an "X package" means "X done repeatly, hoping for different results", while getting paid for each X. --129.125.102.126 23:42, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. If it were limited to the fiscal policy meaning then it would not be possible to have a stimulus package for church ministries, emotions, academic amusement, and cheating husbands, although some of the latter may well have been inspired by the former. Spinning Spark  13:36, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 20:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)