ricknro....simple fact is, the Great Depression was still upon the nation on Dec 7 1941. All of FDR's programs failed to end it. The recovery was slow, plodding and taking its sweet time. Suddenly we switched to war time economy and the depression was over. Stimulus plan is not an Obama invention. He isn't smart enough to come up with an original thought. Every President since FDR has created a stimulus plan to kick start the economy. So does this mean that you are against every stimulus plan initiated by every President.....Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, JFK and Ike.