Once again much of these policies were not designed to magically turn around the mess left behind--no one ever said that the stimulus would solve the whole economic mess it was designed to stop the bleeding and prevent the economy from dropping into depression which it did--I dont see the economy losing 700,000 jobs a month like it was the economy actually started growing albeit slowy--bailout for the automakers saved gm and chrysler in turn saving millions of jobs--gm paid back their ballout with interest and chrysler last i heard had repaid much of their ballout with interest--as far as employers not hiring because of what they might owe--wrong--employers are not hiring because they are uncertain about consumptionof their products due to the recession left behind--jobs are always the last thing to improve during any economic downturn--jobs will not return until the entire economy is moving again--recovery from such a huge mess will take several years well into obamas 2nd term

it took eight years for bush to wreck the economy and you guys expect obama to fix it in a couple of years--sorry it doesnt work that way