A fair point from Pat Toomey of the Club for Growth that Obama-plan defenders ought to address:

I think there is a real chance it’s going to more harm than good, Jon. The fact is, most of this is about new government spending, and governments can’t spend our way into a recovery. We can’t spend our way out of a recession. If that was all it took, we wouldn’t be in one now. I mean, federal government spending, government spending is at an all-time record high.