@okie,
Quote:"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. "
Seems pretty basic, Foxfyre, but maybe community organizers haven't learned it yet?
It is more outrageous than that. The stimulus idea is the concept of "retail therapy" on steroids. You don't feel good, confident, so you go out and buy stuff which is supposed to make you feel better. Sometimes it does, for like a day. But if the problem is that you don't have enough income to cover your debts, adding to your debts with retail therapy does nothing but make the problem worse.
Obama thinks that America's confidence problem is closer to that of a woman who does not feel confident in her body, so she digs out the credit card for a new pair of tits and thus solves the problem. Obama has the wrong conceptual model.