>> Each time Obama speaks I tear up & nearly cry. <<

I was like that for Bush. Out of frustration with the people like Doug who elected him in 2004 fully knowing what he was incapable of.

Doug.

If they spend 800,000,000 billion they will create 4 million jobs. Millions will be employed providing the services they will buy. If they give it away in Bush style tax cuts, they won't create nearly as many jobs. Bush's stimulus is a recipe for investment bubbles and capital flight.

No Republican uses Economics as a basis of decision making. Its all the myth of Reagan; the religion of trickle down.