And so we have to be CAREFUL with looking at additional STIMULUS that we don't provoke an increase in the BOND RATE and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already GOT.

Well, you KNOW, we've got a lot of stimulus in the ECONOMY already from the tax cut, from the lowered INTEREST rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

Modern AUDIENCES are so intelligent. They work at such a fast pace that if you don't give ENOUGH STIMULUS at a breakneck SPEED, they will BECOME disinterested.

Britain can choose, as others are, short TERM fixes and more STIMULUS. Or we can lead the world with long-term SOLUTIONS to long-term problems.

I don't accept as an article of FAITH that LOTS of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and GETS us back on the LONG-TERM TRAJECTORY.

Why don't we STOP the STIMULUS spending? There's STILL about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not WORKING.

This is DUE partly to the fact that Americans are MUCH better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a NEW country, but more largely to our climate, which ACTS as a CONSTANT stimulus.

In addition to billions in new 'stimulus' spending that our country can't afford, the Geithner PLAN also contains billions in tax INCREASES on SMALL and family-owned businesses while PROTECTING the tax preferences of wealthy, multinational corporations.

And people TALK about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to CREATE, it certainly didn't have the INTENDED effects that everybody was HOPING for or that the president and administration certainly was hoping for. So I think it's time to lay some new SOLUTIONS on the table, some new ideas.

Surely, the best and most effective MEASURE is to get the economy MOVING and shorten the PERIOD of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon BROWN's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

When you step off a PLANE into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming STIMULUS: the people SELLING you THINGS, asking you to engage.