Off the street common sense from a "working class stiff"

A friend of mine, from Facebook (okay, okay, don't give me a hard time), was speaking in the last 24 hours about how, if the Democrats--President Obama and his Congress--had done a true stimulus package in the last two years, that this economy would be mostly fixed or healed and they wouldn't have been so trounced or "shellacked", using the President's phrase from yesterday, in this week's elections.  Herewith:


"My example. Take $10 billion. That's roughly $28000 per person. Issue it in the form a debit cards that can only be used to purchase American-made goods. You kill three birds with one stone that way. You help the American people, you jump-start the economy, and you bring jobs back from overseas. You can play around with different numbers and ways to spend it. Look at the current stimulus money. You can see it working right now, you see work crews out there and more trucks on the road, but most of that money is just sitting in cooperate accounts. There was no reason other than political shell games to not put money in the hands of American citizens. That is what the Democrats are supposed to do. Had they done that, I don't feel that they would have suffered loses in this elections."  --Chuck Collins, Facebook friend


Another old friend had said the same thing, some couple of years ago.


It's difficult to argue with the logic, isn't it?


Enjoy that weather, folks.