claim: "there's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. why don't we stop it."
author: john boehner
evidence_1: find out how to spell stimulus correctly at spellcheck.net! ... this graph shows  how "stimulus" have occurred between 1800 and 2008 in a corpus of english  books. ... 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?
evidence_2: the arra's rationale was based on the keynesian economic theory that, during  recessions, the government should offset the decrease in private spending with  an increase in public spending in order to save jobs and stop further economic  deterioration. since its inception, the impact of the stimulus has been a subject of  ...
evidence_3: mar 24, 2009 ... also, since the iraq war is costing about $100 billion a year, how can it be the  biggest costs we have? the cost of the iraq war is dwarfed by obamas spending,  and that's without deducting the costs that would have been spend on the armed  forces even if they were not in iraq. those costs don't go away ...
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evidence_5: dec 9, 2013 ... the debt ceiling might have been raised repeatedly with reckless abandon, but at  least it was an awkward reminder that we are living beyond our means, ... the  ceiling was bumped up to $200 billion to accommodate the big stimulus package  in february 2009, and bumped up again in 2012 to $300 billion.