Stimulus Plan in Hindsight: Did Obama's Agenda Hobble Economic Recovery?

The economists consulted by the writer of this article were obviously, with the exception of Holtz-Eakin, all Democrats who love to spend other people's money. I am not an economist, but I firmly believe that we should simply have tightened our belts, cut Government spending, and by now, we would be better off as a Nation. The $13 Trillion of debt we have run up will forever be a drag on our future economy--and, of course, under Government Accounting Principles, is grossly understated because it does not include military and civilian Government pensions, VA health care costs, the Social Security and Medicare "entitlements", etc. I fear that this Nation will not exist by 2050, at least not in any semblance of what it was when President Eisenhower's 2nd term ended.

The fact that the stimulus plan didn't deliver as Obama promised did the most damage.

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There isn't I senior in America that will be here long enough to enjoy OBama's down the road future investments payoff. And if he beleives if nothing is done with jobs and the creation of new small business and IPO"s now..there will nothing at the end of his rainbow for any of our young people as well.. God Bless America.

How much of our money is being sent south to finance more illegal immigrants?

$13,449,202,260,174.02 and growing.

The most cost effective stimulus would be to enforce our immigration laws and to install measures to encourage the illegals amongst us to return to their native land. I would immediately funds as many border control agents as possible to secure our borders. I would immediately fund the technology and infrastructure to help achieve this. Next I would increase the penalty for hiring illegals and really focus on tough enforcement. I would pass laws to ensure that only people here legally could transfer money outside the USA. Next I would end anchor baby policy either through a constitutional amendment or whatever is necessary to reverse the Supreme Court decision of 1982 that allowed The benefits of such policies are three fold: 1) Illegals hold approximately 8M to 12M jobs that would go to Americans, 2) jobs would be created to secure our borders and enforce the law, and 3) social costs associated with illegals such as increased spending on higher education, welfare, law enforcement, and having to maintain a bilingual infrastructure to accommodate two languages could be reduced and the savings used to enhance the safety net for legitimate citizens. It truly is a no brainer.

May-be our History Books will explain how all of this happened to our Grand Children. I have been terorized enough by all the bad news. Can't you people tell us something good for A change, something we can trust and believe in. There is almost no Hope left in this nation and that is very bad. I like Productive so lets kick that around and do something right for A change. The rest of the World is makeing fun of the USA. The Actions in Washington DC. is disgraceful and I am truley ashamed that elected officials can't get along..long enough to do there jobs as expected. And, I might add..U-people stop your attacks on these people also.

We didn't need a long range plan for economic recovery. We needed a plan that would have the soonest results.

The question seems to have been answered. The ARRA was not a recovery bill but a cover for a wish lists of programs, good, bad or indifferent. All well and good except for "recovery" part which has not materialized and how it was sold to congress, with and wink, and the American people. A bigger bill would not have helped because it was either not spent (almost 50% remains to be spent as of August) or was not intended to help. Now American's are very unhappy at the broken promise of recovery and will hammer the offenders in November.