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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 815920" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>Tell me what is a president to do when the economy is going over a cliff.  The heralded "private sector" was not producing jobs; it was dead in the water.  it is the responsibility of our government at ever level to prime the pump, to stimulate the economy.  FDR did it by directly creating government jobs (the WPA, CCC, etc).  Obama chose to stimulate the economy by keeping $800 Billion in the economy.  That $800 Billion was spent by the government and paid to workers private and public to use to buy goods and sevices.  it helped from making our economy go into a depression.  It was needed andf they came to our rescue.  That is what government should do, not be in our bedrooms telling us who to marry or sleep with etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>