putting people to work also needs to include a completion of the goods and services cycle.  "stimulus" of fluff jobs making things with no payback are a poor investment. 

if stimulus was a project to produce say 30 water desalinization plants on each coast perhaps that would be functional stimulus.  something done, something gained. 

stimulus could be a water distribution system upgrade to insure dry areas always have water. 

stimulus could be adding "people mover" systems to airports to help transportaion in conjested areas. 

but we'll do nothing remotely progressive or remotely completing the typical goods and services cycle. 

>>>>>W.W.II got us out of the great depression by putting tens of millions of Americans to work building war machines to defeat Hitler's Germany<<<<<<

American incomes declined more in the three-year expansion that started in June 2009 than during the longest recession since the Great Depression, according an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by Sentier Research LLC.

Median household income fell 4.8 percent on an inflation- adjusted basis since the recession ended in June 2009, more than the 2.6 percent drop during the 18-month contraction, the research firm’s Gordon Green and John Coder wrote in a report today. Household income is 7.2 percent below the December 2007 level, the former Census Bureau economic statisticians wrote.

“Almost every group is worse off than it was three years ago, and some groups had very large declines in income,” Green, who previously directed work on the Census Bureau’s income and poverty statistics program, said in a phone interview today. “We’re in an unprecedented period of economic stagnation.”

Gee people look at Egypt -- 5,000  years ago they built the pyramids and today they are a back waters nation.

WHY because they are not using their people to do anything useful.

IT'S NOT THE MONEY PEOPLE

Pre-weekend sell off, Labor Day party planned in the Hamptons, gotta sell shares to pay for

 the celebrity endorsements, screw the middle class

I think and this is just my opinion that we need desperately to get Mr. OBama out of office. The economy has gone downhill to the extremes and he is for everything that is immoral and all for the votes. I hope acorn is out of business otherwise we will have a lot of illegal voting going on as before in the other election.

I have heard rumors that they are behind the scenes happenings that are trying to get the US into a world group to run the countries. I think and this is my thoughts only that it will lead to a one world government , which will be one of the signs headed to the end times .

Scary, but it is happening all around us.

UNCERTAINTY??

There is no uncertainty in the stock market basically Japan,Europe and the US economies are on the Death Spiral of Lost Jobs and an ever weaker and weaker economy.

This path of self destruction will continue until the western economic system totally collapses.

Sure Bernanke and the Central bank of Japan and Europe can prints as much fake monies as they want it will not solve the basic problems of unemployment and lack of production out of the western nations which is causing their decline.

Monies as Bernanke is finding out is meaningless without a strong work force focused on producing goods. Sure this sounds Marxist but the guy was right. He merely observed what was going on homes stood empty as they were foreclosed on, factories shutdown and not producing goods and farm land not being farmed, all the while families and kids were straving homeless in the streets without jobs.

Gee people it is obvious that only the labor of workers produces wealth and if you have half your population on welfare like we do and 5 percent on the population taking in 95 percent of the wealth that means times are going to be pretty hard for most people.

W.W. II did not get us out of the great depression by merely being a war to be fought.

W.W.II got us out of the great depression by putting tens of millions of Americans to work building war machines to defeat Hitler's Germany. It was the fact that in 1942 men were in assembly lines building things and getting paid vs 1932 when they were in soup lines all day waiting on a bowl of soup that got us out of the great depression.

Bernanke printing fake monies and handing to the same greedy Wall Street bankers who got us in this mess has not solved the problem because the super rich already have way too much money and do not know how best to use the money.

BERNANKE PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK USE YOUR MONEY PRINTING PRESS TO BUILD MANUFACTURING PLANTS AND HIRE PEOPLE SO THEY WILL HAVE MONEY TO PAY TAXES AND BUY THINGS.

Heck you could lose trillions of dollars building the factories it's all just fake monies afterall the important point is to get people working and doing something useful.

A person on welfare is a huge negative to the GDP. I person making solar panels is a huge plus for the economy and might just save the planet.

BERNANKE GIVE A COUPLE OF TRILLION DOLLARS AND I WILL TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND SO FAST that you will then get the Noble Prize for saving the US economy in less than a year.

Now we have the lovely scenero where the FED members are publicly disagreeing with each other.  We can get a pro-stimulus snippet in the morning and an anti-stimulus snippet released about 3:00 every day.  Clearly there is no obviously "correct" course to take regarding more stimulus if these highly placed men cannot agree.  Therefore they can say whatever the hell they want, whenever they want, and there are no repercussions.  Those closest to the guys doing the talking will clean up. 

Picture a scenerio where O'bama declared war on China every morning and retracted the statement every afternoon.  All his friends could short in the morning and buy back before the afternoon retraction.   He couldn't do that but these bankers can!  They are not accountable to anyone but their bottom lines!

IT"S ALL RIGGED.