Except for the fact that while the federal government poured in billions of dollars, state and local governments slashed billions of dollars...so it's no surprise that the economy has been faltering. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Republicans apparently expect gunshot victims to get up and start running marathons after getting half of the blood that they lost replaced with a transfusion. The reality is that person's not going anywhere for a while. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

local/state governments, MOSTLY GOP DOMINATED, have done their best to undo everything the Obama administration has attempted to do to put the economy back on track. a GOP-dominated Congress hasn't helped much either. - Joe Silence

@Glen: prove it. and by that i mean back it up with facts and not rhetoric or propaganda. - Joe Silence

The economy lost something like 10 to 20 trillion dollars and people have the audacity to think that 1 trillion in federal stimulus is going to stop the bleeding. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Let me help with that search: http://t4america.org/wp-cont... - Steven Perez

TL;DR: the states took the stimulus money that they were supposed to spend on roads and infrastructure, dunked it into budget shortfalls, which were mostly created by giving their rich buddies tax breaks for their businesses, and then claimed that the stimulus didn't work. Unless there was some sort of material benefit, in which case, they took all credit for the "recovery" they adamantly claimed they never needed. - Steven Perez

Two things I'm allergic to: cedar pollen and bovine scatology. :) - Steven Perez

Being wrong does get people riled up, yes. Good for you! - Andrew C (✓) from Android

Germany and Sweden have pretty awesome social welfare systems and they seem to be doing pretty well. The other thing Germany and Sweden have are tight regulations of banking. So, yeah, that might be a good plan, too. - Victor Ganata

I dunno about banking, but we have a good welfare system as well. - Headless Gnad Kicker

Seriously, how can anyone looking at the facts pretend that it's the social welfare systems and not the corrupt bankers that did this? - Victor Ganata

two words Sub Prime and of course Derivatives caused the train wreck along with "too big to fail' left us in the dire straits... #whatdoyoucalljamiedimonhangingfromalamppostAdamngoodbeginning - WarLord

It really does start making me think that the reason why we managed to recover from the Great Depression is because bankers jumped off tall buildings instead of getting bailed out. - Victor Ganata

banks actually failed taking depositors money in teh time before FDIC, so the feds put a big leash on them. Since then of course... - WarLord