Ignorance and simple minded economic policies.
1.Cash for clunkers
2.shovel ready jobs
3.
I second the trial and hanging. Immediately.
3. taxing the productive and handing it out to the unproductive and lazy.
4. increasing the number of people on food stamps/welfare, because it will improve the economy when they go out and spend that money
One of my favorite replies from the Obama era was how excited all those laid off IT guys were going to be at the prospect of the “shovel ready jobs.”