>>Since I am a small business owner mysrlf, I can tell you that the reason we are being squeezed out is the ever growing mountain of government regulation and red tape as well as Barack Hussein Obama's attempts to raise taxes on anyone making over $200,000 per year (use small business owners). Check the facts and you will see that I am right.

Well, I did check out his new plan to tackle tax and red tape affecting small business. I'm not the only one: "This is definitely a positive step," says Molly Brogan, a spokeswoman for the National Small Business Association. "We've been supportive of the President's goal of reducing the burden on small business and easing regulation where appropriate." This is dated August 2011. What are you referring to?

>>I have checked the stats and they disagree with your statement. Stimulus #1 did not create one single job. All it did was to drive us deeper into debt. FDR's repeated sprnding did not get us out of the depression. It took World War II to do that.

Well, it looks as if wars on foreign shores don't do the trick any more (perhaps because the wealthy aren't being taxed at >90% to help pay for it as they were in WWII?) and the last round of tax cuts certainly didn't cause the promised trickle-down... so what to do? One thing that does seem clear, is that >$200B of the new plan involves new schools, roads and bridges whose construction cannot be outsourced to China to increase profits. There *will* be jobs here. If somebody has a mechanism more likely to deliver jobs and get the dollars circulating again, what would that be? Many of the proposals seem to lead to increased saving that may be virtuous but won't get the economy moving again.