Gettin' It Done - 2

This one's as big as they get.  And while it's a little silly to play "yeah-but-what-If", I think there're 2 things we can be pretty sure of.  First, without the Stimulus Package we're lyin' in pieces on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.  And second, we'd be miles ahead of where we are now if Obama'd gotten just the tiniest bit of help from the Repubs in congress.

2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

It's something of a stretch - but not much...