Stimulus Goals

Most of President Obama's immediate attention is focused on passage of his economic stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. One of the chief Republican attacks is that the plan will cost some $223,000 for every job created. This would be true if the the plan were only about job creation, but Obama has laid out some pretty ambitious goals, much more than job creation, in his weekly radio address. And the new administration has already set up an internet site to keep track of where the money is going once the bill has passed...