“Is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.”
I remember watching a National Geographic special about doing hard time in a maximum security prison in California. An inmate used this quote. Not to say that he was stupid, he was very articulate. He was a hard-core gang leader.
My point here being is that our government “hard-core gang leader-in-chief” that currently occupies the White House, does not get it? He has to know that his “same as the last stimulus” plan but only costs half as much, will not work any better than the first stimulus. And that the “shovel-ready” jobs that Dear Leader promised us in the first stimulus were ready, later joked that they weren’t shovel-ready as they thought. Funny stuff.
I believe that he knows full-well that HE is the problem to jobs in this country. I believe that this is part of his plan to destabilize the country further. If you think that I may own a bit too much stock in aluminum-foil hats, there is this from the Wall Street Journal:

September 8, 2011, 9:58 PM ET

Senate Approves $500 Billion Increase in Borrowing Authority

By Corey Boles

“The U.S. Senate, in an unusual procedure, cleared the way Thursday for the U.S. to lift its borrowing authority by $500 billion to $15.19 trillion, enough to keep the support federal government borrowing through late January or early February.

The action came under an unusual legislative procedure spelled out under the August agreement to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. credit default. In a 52-45 vote, the Senate blocked an attempt by Republicans to slow down the process that will result in the $500 billion debt-ceiling increase.

The increase stems from a deal between Congress and the White House, finalized last month, that spells out how the borrowing limit would be increased by $500 billion. Under the process, lawmakers in both the House and Senate must vote on a resolution of disapproval against the increase in the borrowing limit. President Barack Obama would then have to veto the resolution of disapproval, and Congress would then vote to try and override that veto.

The complicated procedure, designed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), would allow an increase of the borrowing limit while allowing most Republicans to vote against such an increase.

There was a twist in this scenario Thursday evening, however. Democrats held firm, rejecting the resolution of disapproval, thereby speeding the process and increasing the borrowing limit immediately.

Only Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.) broke from his party to vote with the Republicans in trying to move forward with the measure.

The next increase in the borrowing limit, likely in the first quarter of next year, will be dependent on the ability of a panel of 12 lawmakers to reach a deal that cuts at least $1.2 trillion from federal budget deficits over the next decade. ”

The first two paragraphs really caught my attention. I believe that the democratic led senate will use this money for “Dear Leader’s” job bill, which is nothing more than another pre-election “slush-fund” for all of Dear Leader’s political friends, and the unions.

I am now too cynical in my thinking that an “unusual procedure” by the senate (I thought it was Congress that controls money?) allows them to borrow just enough money to pass Dear Leader’s job bill on the same day of yet another of Dear Leaders “speeches.”