As one Agonist commenter notes: the richest one percent of Americans own more than the bottom ninety percent. That's a big pool of money to balance our budgets and provide a new, better and bigger round of stimulus. Instead, as Ian notes, "The world’s financial elites blew up the world’s economy. Now the world’s schmucks (aka. ordinary people) are going to be stuck with the bill."

Futhermore, as Matthew Yglesias notes that Ben Bernanke's plans for job growth are to "do nothing:"

at his hearings either Bernanke might publicly discuss his determination to do more to lower the unemployment rate, or else he might confess his lack of confidence in the ability of monetary policy to do more to lower the unemployment rate and call for more fiscal measures.

But he didn’t do either.

Apparently, Obama isn't going to do much either, as the New York Times notes, because there isn't enough money to do so:

Mr. Obama said he would entertain “every demonstrably good idea” for creating jobs, but he cautioned that “our resources are limited.”

Si, se puede!