and again, i have to ask what real differences you believe there would be had anyone else been president?
also, where are you buying your gas?
further, is a collapsing housing market the fault of the president, or is it the fault of the lack of regulation that caused the bubble?
i also don't know about you, but my $ spends just fine. if yours are worthless, please feel free to send them my way.
finally, what do you believe should have been done to create job growth, and what effects do you believe it would have had?
The collapsing housing market was said to have been the result of "toxic assets". These toxic assets were actual real life mortgages that were not being paid and were part of bundles sold by mortgage originators to financial institutions.
They are for the most part still there and have not been corrected or addressed. This is something that should have been addressed with some of the 4 TRILLION dollars that the Big 0 and the Nancy and Harry show pissed away. They were too busy using the funds to prop up public sector employee union jobs and bribing friends and benefactors.
If the trillion or so stimulus dollars used to bribe the democrats and prop up the public sector union employees had been spent on an actual incentive for the economy at the time the funds were being pissed away, they could have been used to subsidize the improvements of everybody's personal domicile from a coat of paint to a new roof.
Let's say that the government paid 20% of every dollar used to fix up a house or apartment. Using the trillion dollars from the tax coffers would have generated another 4 Trillion dollars from the private sector's pockets generating tax dollars from sales taxes, payroll taxes and all the permits, licenses and fees, causing hiring, causing the purchase of equipment to do the subsidized fixing and juicing up the entire economy from vehicles to window glass.
The Big 0 doesn't see the possibility of incentives making people spend to build the economy. He only sees the straight line between a bribe and a vote.
The entire country is now run by the bribe for effect Chicago paradigm.
If you had ever taken the time to follow the stimulus money, you wouldn't be making such erroneous assertions. At the ProPublica.org website, you can see where the money went, right down to pages showing which private contractors received how much in which states, along with the "bailout" of states about to go bankrupt and about 40% going to tax breaks.
Stimulus:*How Fast We're Spending Nearly $800 Billion | ProPublica
Tools & Data - ProPublica
And do they also list the 20 BILLION of this stimulus money went over to China to build wind turbines for us? And what's worse--do they let you know that we borrowed this money from them?
Obama's Stimulus Money Spent Overseas, Jobs in China - ABC News