My thought is that the Democrats never had any intent to provide a stimulus to the economy until late this year. They rushed through a so-called stimulus bill that was primary a payoff for their financial supporters, resorting to pushing it through before anyone could read it. They lied about their intentions, claiming that there would be a lot of money spent immediately on "shovel-ready" projects, something was was obviously untrue, but which their spinners, including major TV anchors spun as being true. Now they claim that about $100 billion of the almost $800 billion stimulus has been spent. There are doubts that this is true either.