"What do you think a stimulus is?..." - Quote by Barack Obama
What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
More by Barack Obama
“Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.”
“There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.”
“We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'”
More on Economic Policy
“There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.”
“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.”
“Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.”
More on Government Spending
“That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works”
“In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.”
“If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.”