Another excellent article, particularly pertinent as we await the Grand Obama Jobs Plan which will be, in a nutshell: borrow even more money than has been previously agreed to, define some green and other programs that will put the union friends of the White House to work and then have Congress fund those programs.
But just don’t call this STIMULUS II.
I know someone here he works for SS admin main office in Maryland and he told me in 2009 that they had orders to NOT call the Obama Economic Recovery Act 'the stimulus bil'l when answering questions on the payments being sent out (lots of dead people got checks.) But the term stimulus was a favorite term used nightly MSNBC to justify more and more government spending.