Reality check
This is the actual effect of the "stimulus" bill as of the middle of May.
Rising retail sales? Motor vehicle and parts sales went up half a percent. Gasoline sales went up 3.6 percent. "Other sales?" one tenth of one percent.
In other words, gas prices are going up again.
The May foreclosures were the third highest monthly rate on record, and you can bet that if Obama wasn't the president, that would have been the headline.
I'm trying like hell to refinance my house, and interest rates have climbed a point since I started. When inflation drops on this country like an anvil, guess where the rates are going to end up.
Do we need to talk future deficits again?