Reply #34: Of course not, but you act like there hasn't been any successes, and you are wrong, my friend.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

And I still don't buy the argument that these people are well-meaning deficit hawks.

The Democrats passed PAYGO, did they not? Where were the Republicans? They voted *AGAINST* PAYGO!!

And sure, the marginal decrease in the deficit may not be much, but it is a move in the right direction.

I think you are being incredibly unreasonable here, and I'm not sure why. You expect for the deficit to just disappear in less than 2 years when it took 8+ years to create? That is astonishing. Absolutely astonishing!

And to be fair, the stimulus simply wasn't enough! Economists of ALL stripes have asserted that point. The stimulus wasn't enough, but that doesn't mean that it did absolutely nothing. Don't buy into the Republican meme, especially when a good number of them are deceptively campaigning on how they saved jobs and created others--WITH STIMULUS FUNDS--back at home in their districts, though they voted against the stimulus.

You're acting as if it did nothing. You are wrong. Even the conservative Wall Street Journal proves you wrong.