Lots of people keep saying this mess Bush got us into. Let's not forget that a certain party controlled the purse strings for the last 4 years.

Let's also not forget what started the initial crash and the resulting domino effect. Freddie and Fannie. There's abundant evidence who protected Fannie and Freddie and who tried to fix it before they crashed. It's all very well documented and easy to find.. right here in these posts. Freddie and Fannie was the beginning to this whole mess.

Most know the stimulus was nothing more than a slush fund for the Obama administration. That's fairly obvious. It's also obvious that it didn't work.

Despite what they say, it was never designed to stimulate the economy. There were no shovel ready jobs. Now Obama wants 40 billion more for "new shovel ready jobs." Really?

On a side note, funny how all these years, the liberal mantra was BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH. But now Obama wants to extend the Bush tax cuts for those under $250k a year. So does that mean they really weren't just tax cuts for the rich?

Never heard that clarification from the democrats in Washington or the media the last 8 or so years.

Just because you're rich or richer doesn't mean your money belongs to the government to do with as they please.

There's only one thing that will jump start the economy and that's small business hiring people. + 250k tax hike will further damage the economy which I believe is their intention all along. There's no other rational explanation for what they are doing.