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You’re wrong about Obama’s stimulus act
By Michael Grunwald, Special to The Washington Post
Posted Aug. 12, 2012, at 5:23 a.m.
President Barack Obama talks about taxes Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in the Old Executive Office building of the White House complex in Washington.
President Obama’s February 2009 stimulus bill, the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was a political disaster.
It helped fuel the Republican revival of 2010 and now stars in Mitt Romney’s ads. The president even stopped uttering the word “stimulus.” But the bill was one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in modern history.
It was the purest distillation of what Obama meant by change, transforming our approaches to energy, education, health care, transportation and the economy, promoting long-term reinvestment as well as short-term recovery. Just about everything Americans think they know about it is wrong. Here are a few examples.
You’re wrong about Obama’s stimulus act
By Michael Grunwald, Special to The Washington Post
Posted Aug. 12, 2012, at 5:23 a.m.
President Barack Obama talks about taxes Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, in the Old Executive Office building of the White House complex in Washington.
President Obama’s February 2009 stimulus bill, the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was a political disaster.
It helped fuel the Republican revival of 2010 and now stars in Mitt Romney’s ads. The president even stopped uttering the word “stimulus.” But the bill was one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in modern history.
It was the purest distillation of what Obama meant by change, transforming our approaches to energy, education, health care, transportation and the economy, promoting long-term reinvestment as well as short-term recovery. Just about everything Americans think they know about it is wrong. Here are a few examples.