CBO estimates that by 2019 the Senate legislation would reduce GDP by 0.1 percent to 0.3 percent on net. [The House bill] would have similar long-run effects, CBO said in a letter to Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican, who was tapped by Mr. Obama on Tuesday to be Commerce Secretary.

How much sense does it make to push through a bill designed to "stimulate" our economy when we know that it will actually reduce economic growth?

5) Despite the initial claims that this bill would be "targeted, timely, and temporary," the Democrats have moved quite a few regular budget items into the stimulus package. Republican Senator Jeff Sessions says this was done in order to avoid the normal budgeting process and that the new baseline for these programs will be the amount that they were allocated in the last budget plus the amount the programs receive in the stimulus package.

In other words, the stimulus package seems likely to add hundreds of billions of dollars, every year going forward, to the budget deficit. No wonder Barack Obama is predicting that America will run "trillion-dollar deficits for years to come" under his "leadership."

6) The sheer cyclopean size of this stimulus package, which comes up to roughly 1.2 trillion dollars when you add in the interest over 10 years, is difficult for most people to comprehend. How big is it? As Mitch McConnell said,

"If you started spending the day that Jesus was born and you spent a million dollars every single day, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion dollars."

Still having trouble wrapping your mind around it? Think of it like this: in today's dollars, the stimulus bill will cost more than the war in Korea and the war in Iraq -- combined! It will cost about the same amount as FDR's New Deal AND the war in Vietnam combined! It'll cost far more than the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, and putting a man on the moon -- combined!

Those were momentous events in our history. Going to the moon, rebuilding Europe, fighting wars -- meanwhile, ten years from now, we'll have very little to show from this stimulus plan other than a considerably larger national debt and slower economic growth. In other words, all hyperbole aside, this may very well be the single least effective, most wasteful, most costly piece of legislation in all of recorded human history.