The author calls it a ‘really expensive, depressing yawn’. In keeping with my reputation of not being quite so polite, I’ll call it a colossal rip-off of taxpayer dollars in keeping with business as usual.

Tax payers earlier this year were given a promise of 3.5 million new jobs as a part of the pitch to support business and state government bailouts. According to the Heritage Foundation, that translates to a promise that June’s total US employment would climb to 135.9 million. Never happened. Total employment is currently around 131.7 million (and falling). The only thing DC politicians’ so-called stimulus has legitimately produced (besides those yawns) is a net jobs deficit of 4.2 million.

At the rate that our do-nothing Democratically-controlled congress is ‘progressing’, Republicans won’t need to come up with a new strategy to get back into the White House, it will be gladly handed to them.

Provided all parties involved manage to stay awake until next November.

They "stimulated" the already robust rich, while the poor and middle class just lost more and more.