when you predicted the result before the legislation was signed.

Plenty of people said the stimulus ROI in temporary jobs now per dollar of debt forever was a stinker back when Congress first started debating it.

GDP didn't turn up in quarter 3 because of the "stimulus bill". It turned up because of stimulus, sure; the stimulus from the bank bail-out, TARP, and the trillion-plus $ that the Fed pumped into the money supply. None of which were part of the "stimulus bill".

(More home-building, yeah thats what we need, with a glut of foreclosed homes on the market now, lets build more. That's sustainable growth for you. That should help housing values rebound, increasing the supply of something always leads to higher prices, right?)