Understanding why government stimulus cannot work is a simple exercise in Economics 101. First, you must understand that Congress does not have a vault full of money standing by to be injected into the economy for one noble purpose or another.  So, where does the stimulus money come from? 

Any money the government injects into the private sector must first be taken from the private sector. More specifically, all the money the government spends is first earned and taxed and removed from the free market.  Consider not only the absurdedy of a stimulus effort but the pristine, exquisitely arrogant notion of taking hard-earned, tax dollars, and ear-marking them.

Liberals will miss this point entirely, since they look to the government first, not last, for any and all assistance. But to the more sober thinking, tax-paying Americans, surely you must understand that any stimulus package is nothing more than a wilful spending of monies that you earned, that you were taxed on, and are now going to be spent, as directed by appointed bureaucrats.

It is a transfer payment, period. Money earned by a productive segment of the free market is spent on a non-productive segment of the economy. Worse, it is an alien element being injected into the free market which upsets the natural balance, and while it may prove temporarily effective for one segment, it must as a matter of pure logic come at the expense of another.

When you hear about any stimulus package, remind yourself that the government has no vault filled with cash. Remind yourself that the government creates nothing; it only spends the money earned by others.