>> They were wussy about it, but there's no doubt that ARRA spent
>> a lot of money and preserved millions of jobs that would have
>> otherwise disappeared. Latest CBO estimates:
>>
>> http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11706.
>
> And yet the number of unemployed workers today is bigger than the
> number that Obama claimed would be unemployed *without* his ARRA.
Yes, that's exactly what is meant by "was wussy about it" -- it was some, but not nearly enough. I would have been worse without it, even though it didn't completely do the trick. Krugman makes this point all the time.
> When that 57% support "government spending to create jobs" and no jobs
> are created ...
Logic error: some != none.
/jordan