Obama wants 50 Billion in additional Stimulus Spending! Is that a GOOD IDEA or BAD IDEA ?

Not that I am pro stimulus, but there are very distinct differences between the old version vs. the new version. The Work Projects Administration (WPA) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It also employed artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. Writers documented local and state histories, artists painted murals and other works for new federal post offices and other buildings.

The WPA provided food for children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing. Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. The WPA's initial appropriation in 1935 was for $4.9 billion (about 6.7 percent of the 1935 GDP), and in total it spent $13.4 billion.

At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men (and some women), as well as youth in a separate division, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA provided almost eight million jobs.

The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, which provided 10%-30% of the costs. The WPA sometimes took over state and local relief programs that had originated in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) or Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) programs.

Fast forward to today, and it seems that this new stimulus is used to attempt to prop up failing corporations, golden parachutes in a manner of speaking for the executives of those failing corporations, and foreigners. Some have even received stimulus after filing for bankruptcy.

Meanwhile the taxpayer pays on and the real economy sits in its coma...

There has been close to 5.5 million new jobs created since President Obama took office, and considering that he stepped into office during the worst recession since the great depression, that's a remarkable achievement in less than four years.

The problem is that the Republicans have done everything they could to keep unemployment high, erroneously believing that "no President could get reelected with unemployment over 7.5%". Senator Mitch McConnell clearly stated that his number one priority was to insure that President Obama didn't get reelected. He and the other Republicans plan failed miserably. President Obama was reelected with an electoral vote landslide of 332 to 206, with 62 more electoral votes than needed to win. He also won the election winning 90% of the swing states. The only swing state he didn't win was North Carolina, and he only lost that state by 97,465 votes, or by 2.2%.

The Republicans in the Senate have filibustered every jobs bill that was presented. Their idea of a jobs bill was cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood and lowering taxes for the wealthy, which had nothing to do with creating new jobs. If the economy is going to grow, more jobs need to be created, and $50 billion in stimulus would create more than a million new jobs on infrastructure improvement projects, from repairing our failing bridges to road improvements to school repairs and more. $50 billion in stimulus is not only a good idea, it's the best idea to get the slow economy back on track.