Nay Nay, caj p, republicans expected him to do something!   However, the minute he had the opportunity he put together eight long years of overdue democratic binge spending for all of the special interest groups.  We didn’t need a stimulus plan to get the economy back on the right track.   It is recovering now and no stimulus is in place.  

Okay, hold on to your chair because I know you are going to freak out when I say this…but immediately cutting taxes to businesses would have INSTILLED confidence in the American people because they know that has always turned an economy around.    If you are still sitting down, the next thing he could have done is offer big tax credits to EVERYONE who files taxes! By offering large tax credits to everyone, most people would have their refunds by now and spending it, making their mortgage payments, paying their rent, etc.

Instead, he took advantage of an opportunity to "stick it to George Bush" and to load the smoker up with prime pork.   Many lost respect for him and lost confidence in him because he was so transparent.   Perhaps not the transparency he talked about during his campaign.   He hasn’t kept his promises.   And he cannot, for the life of him, talk seriously to the people of the United States of America unless he has the written speech plastered in front of him.   Without the big "T" he cannot keep his train of thought, he ummms and ahhhs, and can be expected to say something inappropriate.   And to think he sits in the Oval Office!!

The country did not go to hell in a handbasket over the past eight years.   The last eight years will not even be remembered in history as it will PALE in comparison to the trillions of debt during the Obama administration.   All this in less than 70 days.

History will not be kind to Barack Obama.

I will be honest about who has spent the money. All of them! No offense caj but all through this thread it just sounds like you are saying… Bush spent lots of money so why can’t Obama? Nobody complained then so stop complaining now. With this logic you are suggesting that we just ignore the warning signs of more failed policies and support our party blindly. Well, no thanks.

If you step away from both the right and left sides and move into the patriot zone, you  might see that all this spending is bad, BAD, for our country. But seriously, you may have to take off the blinders and pick up a basic economy book and study some recent history. You will see that there is blame enough for both parties. The solution is to stop interfering with big Govt. spending, we cannot spend our way out of this economic crisis. If taxes came down and interest rates went up the economy would begin to correct itself.

President Obama may have inherited big problems and debt but he is making it worse, at rocket speed. And since he is the one who is in charge now, he is the one who is going to get the criticism, it does no good to complain about what Bush or Clinton did at this point. Let’s stop pointing fingers and blindly following the people who work for us! We are supposed to be in charge, we need to let the Fed know that we are paying attention and are not happy with this out of control spending.

In a nutshell, what I am saying is stop arguing politics over an economic problem. No matter who it is doing the spending, just STOP!