Official Buyers Remorse Thread

[dude1394]

It's finally come full circle. Now barry wished barry hadn't been elected.

Perhaps a larger problem than the dollar figure was that the stimulus was never structured to be spent nearly as quickly as the fast-worsening unemployment rate required. As Alter points out, "The president-elect's lack of experience in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy didn't help." Even Obama himself later admitted that "one of the biggest lies in government is the idea of 'shovel-ready' projects."