"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid."
"If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession."
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Source: Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
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