In your opinion, how effective has the stimulus been so far?

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Considering that the administration had to make up numbers and congressional districts just to fake its effectiveness - not at all.  The stimulus and the omnibus for that matter were a payoffs to democratic allies and interest groups.  None of the projects within were about long term infrastructure projects like promised.  $18 million of course, went to the creation of recovery.gov.  Why is $18 million being spent on a single website?  This website has a lot of data and it doesn't cost 18 million to maintain.  There was money put in just for sign building across the country.  One of these road signs are at my airport.  Why was that needed?  You could give that job to prisoners to make like they do license plates.  What should have been done wasn't.  If you spend money, why didn't they give money to every state for state construction projects like roads and bridges, and leave restrictions out of it save one - that it must create jobs for regular folks.  It's a joke, and everyone knows it is.  Even Christina Romer said that the stimulus has already had the effect it was supposed to have.  No jobs have been "saved" and they certainly aren't being "created".