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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 812522" data-attributes="member: 29553">Fact is the stimulus did create some jobs and it saved others.  Economists all admit that.  True this was a huge recession WHICH MEANT THE STIMULUS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BIGGER NOT SMALLER. On "common sense", Obama did focus on job creation on Day 1, he pushed threw the stimulus (to stimulate the economy to CREATE jobs).  Health care came later and was passed Jan 2010.  On more tax cuts stimulating the economy, Bush tried it in 2008 and it didnt work.  Also one third of the stimulus WAS TAX CUTS!!  The Obama tax cuts were withholdig tax cuts; we actually never got a separate check, but we got it as more take home pay. And it helped the economy because that is what we do as Americans , we spend our $$.  Your idea is quite "common" on the right, but it doesn't make any economic "sense".</blockquote>