The 2009 Stimulus DID NOTHING. No amount of wishing it had will change that. The unemployment rate went up and up and the GDP kept dropping. There is no evidence anywhere in history to suggest government spending stimulates private sector markets. Zero.

When will we be rid of this central planning thinking. It is so destructive and has failed SO many times, I cannot believe anyone still thinks it works.

Wrong. This is the age of the low information voter. They still blame Bush for everything despite Dems controlling at least one branch of Congress since 2007. You know, back when the deficit was only 170 billion?

I have never seen someone so ordinary and average heaped with so much praise as Barack Obama.

Another govt (non)educated voter. Big govt was created by FDR who had to stack the courts to get his marxist agenda in place. Another spoiled rich brat like Marx himself who had no idea how the world works, since neither had ever worked a day in their lives.

Such lies. 2 trillion only if you count the entire DOD and Homeland budgets as Iraq and Afghanistan. Tell us another one, sheep.

First of all he isn't advocating "no govt". THats a pathetic strawman people use to attack conservatives. Secondly, we are a REPUBLIC , not a democracy. The fact you don't know this indicates govt control of schools is hurting the country.

During the Clinton/Gingrich"boom",govt spending was 18.5 percent of GDP. During this dismal Obama economy, spending is 21+% of GDP. Look at that, I didn't need a spreadsheet just logic and ability to interpret results.

Where was God during X is one of the most facile statements, ever. During the Boston Bombing, God was allowing free will as he has always done. If he moved you around and made you do only good things, you wouldn't be a human being but a puppet.

When did you first realize you know everything? Just curious what type of insanity allows someone to believe everything just "is". No causes, no reasons, just "it is". Truly ignorant.

I love how the politicians concentrate on money when it comes to the economy. What idiots and imbeciles. If you stop working , then I pay you your prior salary then you are spending the same amount of money you were before. The big difference is that you aren't *producing anything* any longer. Inflation doesn't matter as much as productivity. The unemployment rate is just a symptom of a free market which is dying. Its like Milton Friedman said, if you want full employment just pay half the unemployed to dig holes and the other half to fill them up.