I don't deny that government has spurred industry and subsidized both agricultural and industrial interests however that is far different from cutting checks to people who never paid a dime of income tax.
Subsidies are necessary often for competition and the building of indigenous industries but how does it benefit the US to create labor intensive jobs with the stimulus in the age of technology? The pricetag is simply too high and the mitigating effect of having 8.1% unemployement versus 9% is basically irrelevant to the ecomy at large albeit there will be locallized pain.
We seemed to be engaged in an era of trying to land soft when what we need to do is fall first and then dust ourselves off and start over again.
