President Obama's Stimulus Plan  which provides a clearly defined return on the investment that the public are being asked to fund.

Bernstein and Romer forecast of recommended fed distributions are available in pdf and video format. With respect to job loss mitigation, you must be aware of the graph from that document being replicated on the interboobz. Because it a 1% "return" is clearly a poor investment rationale.

Alternatively, read the plan itself pdf, released 15 Jan 2009 (HTML tally) and compare its contents to interboobz professional and amateur analyses. Since its release and the inauguration WH commitment to "infrastructure" investment has actually retreated. The change to amounts published in the press are declining purportedly to balance accounting for tax cuts and subsidy of state, municipal relief.

Now, we could speculate here that the politicking is all the Republican Party fault. But then we'd also have to confront the facts of the Democratic Party "landslide" majority in both chamber. And that won't do. For the ethos of the legislature is clearly evident: That is to justify "price support" not of labor but of financial products.

I encourage you to strengthen those aspects of the LTE that vivify defense of HH income.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.