Four months after President Obama and his Democrat Congress enacted the largest expenditure in history to “stimulate” the economy, it has been a complete failure – but not for the reason that people are likely to argue about. Unemployment continues to rise and businesses continue to fail. Proponents of socialism and Big Government will surely argue that we have to be patient and simply wait around while this magic potion of stimulus takes effect.  As long as there are still people that can be taxed, they argue, all is not lost. They further make it clear that even if they finally admit that the plan is a failure, there is someone else to blame. If it doesn’t work, they say, it is only because we didn’t spend enough or wait long enough. But the plan is a failure.

The failure is once again believing that more Big Government intervention is the answer to any perceived problem. The failure is thinking that Big Government is better able to run businesses – or the economy  in general – than the free market upon which this country was based. The failure is discarding the U.S. Constitution by procaliming that Big Government is in charge of the economy where no such power exists. The failure is living by the idea that any problem results from the mere absence of a particular new law or regulation that is yet to be made.

And all of this money has to come from somewhere. If only some new tax were charged, then we’ll get somewhere – or wait! Maybe penalize successful people more! These tired arguments are tired for a reason – they have never worked to help an economy. The Obama – Ponzi scheme of raising taxes – but only on some other, unnamed rich evil people – will fail like any other Ponzi scheme. There will be no more “someone else” who will pay for all of this.

The “stimulus” plan is a failure simply because Big Government became big enough to believe that the people would allow them to come up with such a plan in the first place.

 C.R.